Jane Koretz

Professor Emerita
Department of Biological Sciences
Biology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America

Academician Ophthalmology
Biography

  Jone Koretz received her B.A. with high honors from Swarthmore College ,and her Ph.d. in biophysics form the University of Chicago for her work on skeletal muscle myosin ATPase with EdwinW. Taylor. She was a Muscular Dystrophy Association post-doctrol fellow at the MRC Cell Biophysics Unit, King’s College ,London, before joining the faculty of Rensselaer, the recipient of a Fulbright for her sabbatical work at the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophathalmology(University of Oxford), and a senior awardee of the Ruth L.Kirchstein National Research Service Award from NIH.

Research Intrest

  Jone Koretz received her B.A. with high honors from Swarthmore College ,and her Ph.d. in biophysics form the University of Chicago for her work on skeletal muscle myosin ATPase with EdwinW. Taylor. She was a Muscular Dystrophy Association post-doctrol fellow at the MRC Cell Biophysics Unit, King’s College ,London, before joining the faculty of Rensselaer, the recipient of a Fulbright for her sabbatical work at the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophathalmology(University of Oxford), and a senior awardee of the Ruth L.Kirchstein National Research Service Award from NIH.

List of Publications
[1].Koretz, J. F., Cook, C. A., Kaufman, P. L. Aging of the human lens: changes in lens shape at zero-diopter accommodation. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 18:265-72. [2001]. [2].Koretz, J. F. and Cook, C. A. Aging of the optics of the human eye: lens refraction models and principal plane locations. Optom. and Vis. Sci. (special issue on the aging eye), 78:396-404 [2001]. [3].Koretz, J.F., Cook, C. A. and Kaufman, P. L.Aging of the human lens: changes in lens shape at zero diopters accommodation. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 19(1):144-51 [2002].