Elizabeth J Rossin, MD, PhD

I am honored and humbled to be part of the Michels Foundation Fellowship family. After completing an MD and PhD at Harvard Medical School, I completed my residency and chief year at Massachusetts Eye and Ear where I am currently a vitreoretinal surgery fellow.

My research involves the application of network theory to biological systems in order to better model their complexity. During my doctoral work, we studied how genetics of common complex traits - such as autoimmune disease - point to genes that code for a network of interacting proteins. Currently, we have applied these concepts to the 3D folded structure of individual viral proteins to identify peptides that are crucial to protein function and serve as important targets in vaccine design. I plan to continue to explore these concepts to help better understand infectious and hereditary disease in ophthalmology.

In my spare time, my husband and I enjoy taking our son on outdoor adventures in the northeast.