Dr. Sun is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine as well as a clinician-scientist who holds several U.S. patents and is the primary investigator on a number of clinical trials. Dr. Sun studies pediatric diseases of congenital glaucoma and retinal degeneration, and his laboratory team uses advanced technologies of patient-based iPS cells, CRISPR gene editing, optogenetics, and functional retinal imaging to discover mechanisms of disease and to develop new treatments for blinding diseases of the eye.