Dr. Ryoji Amamoto is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in the lab of Dr. Connie Cepko. He did his undergrad at the University of Illinois and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2017. As a postdoc, he has two main projects: one is to understand how the retina degenerates in a blindness disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa, and another is to develop molecular tools to facilitate answering complicated questions in vivo.