Ilva Dana Rupenthal

Department of Ophthalmology

The University of Auckland

Ilva Dana Rupenthal

Ilva is currently an Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of Ophthalmology as well as the Director of the Buchanan Ocular Therapeutics Unit, which aims to develop and translate ocular therapeutic related scientific research into the clinical setting. She received a BPharm from the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany, in 2003 and completed a PhD on ‘Ocular delivery of antisense oligonucleotides’ with the School of Pharmacy and the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Auckland, in 2008. In 2010, Ilva was awarded a prestigious three-year New Zealand Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship to establish an ocular pharmaceutics group within the New Zealand National Eye Centre. In 2013, she then received a prestigious HRC Sir Charles Hercus Research Fellowship to continue her innovative research into stimuli-responsive ocular implants. Dr Rupenthal has received several awards including the 2016 HRC Emerging Researcher Excellence Award, a 2014 University of Auckland Early Career Research Excellence Award and most recently, a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

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