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Senior Medical Director, Aurion Biotech

Nysha graduated with an OD degree from the Illinois College of Optometry in 2010. In 2011, she completed a residency specializing in cornea and specialty contact lenses at the State University of New York and the New York Eye and Ear Hospital. She then dedicated nine years to direct patient care in both primary care and surgical settings.

In 2019, she joined the medical affairs team at Ocular Therapeutix, where she acquired clinical, medical, and research expertise related to an intracanalicular insert designed to alleviate pain and inflammation post-ophthalmic surgery. Furthermore, she collaborated closely with the clinical operations team to support site initiation, implementation, training for investigational products and surgical procedures, as well as the enrollment processes for OTX-TIC and OTX-TKI.

In 2023, Nysha took on the role of Senior Medical Director at Aurion Biotech while simultaneously completing her PhD in Biomedicine at Salus University. Over the past 18 months, she has been involved in both medical affairs and clinical development, concentrating on Aurion’s primary asset currently in Phase II for corneal endothelial cell transplant therapy via intracameral injection. Nysha resides in Indianapolis with her husband, Dan, and her two boys, Ari and Logan.