Richard Fisher, Ph.D.
 

In addition to the Project Team Leader of the Nanomedicine Initiative, Dr. Fisher is the Director of the Office for Program Planning and Analysis in the NEI. Previously, he served as the Corneal Diseases Program Director in the NEI and a Scientific Review Administrator in the National Institute for Deafness and other Communications Disorders. His research as a staff scientist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and as a visiting scientist at the Catholic University in Belgium focused on electrophysiological studies of membrane ion transport and volume regulation in epithelial tissues.