Yang Sun, MD, PhD

Dr. Yang Sun is clinician-scientist in glaucoma and an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University and Byers Eye Institute. Dr. Sun received his BA in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, followed by a MD PhD degree from Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his Ophthalmology residency at Stanford University, followed by a prestigious Heed fellowship at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Sun was an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, where he was tenured before returning to Stanford University in 2017. Dr. Sun’s research in glaucoma has been funded by the National Eye Institute and Veterans Administration, American Glaucoma Society, Lowe Syndrome Association, Knights Templar Eye Foundation, and Matilda Ziegler Foundation. Dr. Sun holds several U.S. patents on novel regulators of eye pressure and is the primary investigator on a number of glaucoma clinical trials. He is a member of Stanford BioX faculty and he is currently serving as an elected at-large member in the Faculty Senate.