The Myung Research Group is a translational laboratory focused on two areas of clinical need:
Dr. Myung is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford and cataract surgeon at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. He is also the Co-Director of the Ophthalmic Innovation Fellowship program and Faculty Fellow of both the Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health (CHeM-H) Institute and the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH). He was the lead inventor of the Paxos Scope system at Stanford along with Robert Chang, MD, and Alexandre Jais, which was commercialized by DigiSight and registered with the FDA as a 510k Class II ophthalmic camera in November of 2015. Dr. Myung received his bachelor’s degree with Phi Beta Kappa honors in Molecular & Cellular Biology from Yale University, and both his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and M.D. from Stanford University where he was a Bio-X Fellow for his interdisciplinary research on biomimetic polymer alloys.