Prof. Eyal Banin serves as Member of Scientific Advisory Board of SparingVision SAS. Prof. Banin is Director of the Center for Retinal and Macular Degenerations (CRMD) at the Department of Ophthalmology at Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. His main clinical and research focus is in the field of retinal and macular degenerations, including the development and application of novel cell- and gene-based therapies for these diseases. The recipient of many research grants from Israeli and foreign institutions, Dr. Banin has authored and published over 110 papers and articles in leading medical journals. He was appointed head of the Medical Retina Service and the CRMD at Hadassah. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, holds a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the Hebrew University, and completed his ophthalmology residency at Hadassah Medical Center in 1998. He completed a post-doctoral and medical fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia.