He is a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Fellow and Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Chow’s research is conducted in the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, where his focus is on hormone and neuronal secretion in normal and pathological states. Two areas of particular interest are diabetes and retinal-neurological diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Chow was principal investigator on a groundbreaking study of hormone secretion that was published as a cover story in the journal Nature in 2003. He received an MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and conducted postdoctoral work in biophysics in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Professor Erwin Neher at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.