Jose S. Pulido, MD, MS, MBA, MPH
Larry A. Donoso, MD, PhD, JD, MBA, Endowed Chair
Director of the Henry and Corrine Bower Memorial Laboratories for Translational Medicine
Vickie and Jack Farber Vision Research Center at Wills Eye
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Pulido is a board-certified ophthalmologist with an extensive research portfolio that has focused on vitreoretinal infectious and inflammatory diseases, retinal degeneration, stem cells, checkpoint inhibitors, and immunotherapies where he has published close to 350 peer-reviewed ophthalmic papers, and numerous books, book chapters, and editorials. Dr. Pulido takes on this new role at Wills Eye as the Director of the Henry and Corrine Bower Memorial Laboratories for Translational Medicine in the Vickie and Jack Farber Vision Research Center at Wills Eye after fifteen years as Professor of Ophthalmology at Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Pulido earned a bachelors and master's in chemistry at the University of Chicago and a degree in medicine from Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed his ophthalmology residency and served as Chief Resident at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Following residency, he completed a vitreoretinal surgery and retina research fellowship at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Additionally, before starting his position at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Pulido earned his MB at the University of Iowa, completed an ocular oncology fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and earned an MPH at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Pulido has held Visiting Professorships and presented named lectures throughout the world. He has more than a dozen patents and won many awards and high honors in the field of ophthalmology throughout his career.
Dr. Pulido’s research interests focuses on translating basic science to the clinical arena and much of his work has centered on vitreoretinal infectious and inflammatory diseases. In more recent work, Dr. Pulido has tried to actually combine his interests in inflammatory diseases and oncology and developed a phase 1 trial using a VSV based vaccine for the treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma. At Wills Eye Hospital, Dr. Pulido will continue to pursue his passion of translational research of inflammatory diseases and immunotherapies to develop innovative clinical therapies for ocular diseases.

Jose S. Pulido, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
Larry Donoso Chair of Translational Ophthalmology
Wills Eye Hospital and Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
Professor Emeritus
Departments of Ophthalmology and Molecular Medicine
Mayo Clinic

I’m very grateful to prof. Francesco Bandello per establishing the Brancato Retina Award. It’s a great honor to be part of this international committee.

Prof. Brancato has been our mentor and has inspired many ophthalmologists with his innovative insights and enthusiasm. He is one of the international leaders who brought ophthalmology into modernity.