Martine Jager

About Martine Jager

Martine Jager

Head of the Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Professor of Ophthalmology at Leiden University; Adjunct Scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

A past president of ARVO (and ARVO’s first non-American), and a recipient of their Joanne G. Angle Award, Martine Jager’s research interests include immunology and the development of uveal melanoma and ocular surface disease; she has written more than 130 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. After completing a PhD in immunology at the University of Leiden, Jager was an ophthalmology resident at the University of Amsterdam and a clinical fellow at Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.