Prof. Uwe Pleyer 

Professor Uwe Pleyer is currently Professor of Ophthalmology at the Charité, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Previously, he worked as Assistant Professor at the University Eye Hospital Ophthalmology, Tübingen, Germany. He completed his medical and doctorate education at the Rheinisch-Westfählische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany, at the Cornell University, New York, NY, USA and at the University Eye Hospital in Tübingen. Dr Pleyer has worked as a resident at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany and as postdoctoral fellow at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, where he specialised in immune-mediated eye diseases. He concluded further clinical and research fellowships at ophthalmology centres in USA and Asia/India. 

Dr Pleyer has served as Principal Investigator for both national and international trials in ophthalmology. He is member of several scientific societies. He was president of EVER (2007), is a task force member for ESCRS, and a founding member of the International Ocular Inflammation Society (IOIS). 

He is involved in both research and clinical treatment of infectious and immune mediated ocular diseases. Dr Pleyer has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, is (co-)editor of 17 books and editor-in-chief of Ophthalmic Research (2002-2014). In addition, he is on the editorial boards of a number of journals. Dr Pleyer has received several honours and awards including the esteemed International Chibret Award (1994), B. Straatsma Award and Lecture (UCLA, 2006), Max Rubner Preis (2015), Meibom-Mooren Award (2022) and Von Szily Medaille (2023).