DR. Janet Blanks
DR. Janet Blanks
Positions/Employment, Membership and Honors
Director and ProfessoR
center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic university
Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Department of Neuropathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy & Cell Biology, USC School of Medicine; and Director, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation, CA
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy & Cell Biology, USC School of Medicine; and Director, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Doheny Eye Institute
Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy & Cell Biology, USC School of Medicine; and Director, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Doheny Eye Institute
Professor of Biomedical Sciences, and Director, Eye Research Institute, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Professor of Biomedical Science and Assistant Chairperson, Department of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Professor of Biomedical Science, Department of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Professor and Director of Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
1974 – 1976
1976 – 1978
1978 – 1984
1984 – 1991
1991 – 1997
1997 - 2002
2002 - 2004
2004 – 2007
2007 - Present
1980 – 1985
1990 – 1991
1992
1996 – 2001
2006-2008
Selected Awards and Professional Activities
Courses Taught at FAU:
Traumatic Brain Injury (FALL Semester)
Research Career Development Award, National Eye Institute
James S. Adams Scholar Research Award from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.
Fogarty Senior International Fellowship,INSERM, Paris, France
Executive Vice President, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Voted North American Counselor for the International Society for Eye Research