Research interests: Visualizing epigenomics in real time; Molecular mechanisms controlling photoreceptor genome organization and neurodegeneration

Dr. Pierre Mattar is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa in cellular and molecular medicine and a scientist in the the regenerative medicine program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Insititute. He is also the Clifford, Gladys and Lorna J. Wood Chair for research in vision. His research interests are focused on how retinal cell types are produced and maintained. His goal is to understand the degenerative process of these cells in order to find new approaches that could prevent or mitigate degeneration of vision.