- Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance, University of Rochester, Research Associate
- Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Postdoctoral Fellow
- University of California, Berkeley, PhD in Vision Science
- University of Rochester, BA in Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Education & Training
Dr. Rossi's research is focused on developing and deploying advanced ophthalmic imaging tools to study the normal and diseased retina. He has been working with high resolution imaging technologies with adaptive optics for over a decade. His PhD training in the laboratory of Austin Roorda, the inventor of adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, was focused on using adaptive optics to probe the limits of human vision in both normal and diseased eyes.
His current research continues the development of near infrared autofluorescence and expanded his investigations of age-related macular degeneration. This includes an international study in collaboration with Dr. José-Alain Sahel, the Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, and collaborators in France on how genetics shape the cellular level retinal phenotype in AMD. This work has generated a large AMD patient cohort in Pittsburgh and provided foundational knowledge for future work.
National Eye Institute (RO1EY030517)
Foundation Fighting Blindness (PPA-0819-0772-INSERM)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R44NS095090)
Henry L. Hillman Foundation - Eye & Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh