The Rafael del Pino Foundation, as part of its Programme for Attracting Teaching Talent, has signed a collaboration agreement with the Ophthalmological Research Foundation of Oviedo in order to contribute to the return of outstanding Spanish researchers who are working in centres of excellence abroad. The objective pursued by the Rafael del Pino Foundation with the creation of the Rafael del Pino Chairs is to raise the level of teaching and research in the best Spanish universities.
With the recovery of researchers and their incorporation into Spanish universities, the quality of the training that our university students receive is improved.
At the proposal of the Fundación Investigación Oftalmológica, Dr. Miguel Coca-Prados will hold the Rafael del Pino Chair for the period 2009-2013.
Dr. Coca-Prados is Professor of Ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine (USA), where he has spent his professional career.
During 2012, the main objective of the study was to obtain protein patterns that provide a classification/diagnostic tool for open-angle and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma pathologies. This study has determined that the use of proteominer is a good fractionation process and has determined the optimal range of Ph and percentage of acrylamide to obtain the maximum possible information with maximum resolution.
Miguel Coca-Prados is Rafael del Pino Professor in genetic ophthalmology of eye diseases. Professor Coca-Prados holds a degree in Biology from the University of Salamanca.
Throughout his prolific academic and research career he has been: Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale University; Postdoctoral Fellow in the Microbiology Department of Dr. David A. Wolff at Ohio State University; Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at Rockefeller University in New York; and Ophthalmology Research Scientist and Senior Research Fellow in Ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine.
He has published numerous scientific papers and his research work has been awarded several times, most recently in 2006, when he received the Yla-Pfizer Visiting Professorship Award. He is Principal Investigator at the Fundación de Investigación Oftalmológica.