Gordon L. Fain, distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, ophthalmology and neuroscience, is the recipient of Brandeis University’s fourth annual Jay Pepose ’75 Award in Vision Sciences. Fain is the leading physiologist studying rod and cone phototransduction and is at the forefront of combining molecular genetics and cutting-edge physiology to study the issue.
Fain, who earned a B.A. in biology at Stanford and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins, has served on UCLA’s faculty since 1975. He is a past winner of the National Institutes of Health MERIT Award and was a Guggenheim Fellow. NIH provides grants to support his research on the physiology of photoreceptors.
Pepose is the founder and medical director of the Pepose Vision Institute in St. Louis and a professor of clinical ophthalmology at Washington University. The Pepose Award is funded by a $1 million endowment through a gift from Brandeis graduates Jay Pepose and his wife Susan K. Feigenbaum through the Lifelong Vision Foundation.
