Dr. Sahel is currently the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of the UPMC Eye Center, and the Eye and Ear Foundation Chair of Ophthalmology. Dr. Sahel founded and still leads the Institut de la Vision in Paris, a research center associated with the one of the oldest eye hospitals in the world Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital in Paris, founded in 1260, and is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Sorbonne Université medical school in Paris. He is a pioneer in the field of artificial retina and eye regenerative therapies and is a member of the French and German Academies of Sciences.