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Tayyaba Hasan

Tayyaba Hasan is a professor of dermatology at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (part of Mass General Brigham aka MGB). She is also a Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-MIT (HST).

Hasan is one of the inventors of Visudyne (aka Verteporfin), a Food and Drug Administration approved treatment for age-related macular degeneration of the eye, that has been used to treat millions of patients worldwide. Recognized as a leader in the field of photodynamic therapy (PDT) worldwide, Hasan has been an active researcher for more than 40 years, earning more than a dozen significant awards and recognitions for her research and mentoring, most recently the US Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). Hasan has over 300 publications (cited more than 36k times), 30+ inventions, and is a Fellow of both the National Academy of Inventors and the OSA (formerly the Optical Society of America). Provided by Wikipedia