Dr. Sandeep Jain is a clinician-scientist and B.A. Field Professor of Ophthalmology at the UIC Department of Ophthalmology. He is the Director of the UIC Dry Eye and ocular Graft-Vs-Host Disease clinic. He also directs the Cornea Translational Biology Laboratory in the Department. His research work is funded by the National Eye Institute/NIH and has led to more than 75 peer-reviewed publications in professional journals, multiple patents, start-ups and development of drugs. He has received numerous awards and recognition, including UIC’s Inventor of the Year Award, UIC’s Departmental Faculty of the Year Award and Physician-Scientist Award from Research to Prevent Blindness. He has been named Castle-Connolly Top Doctors and America’s Best Doctors®, and has received the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Achievement Award and the Association for Research in Vision's Fellowship award (FARVO).

After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Jain joined the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at The Johns Hopkins University as a pre-residency fellow and completed his residency training in Ophthalmology at the Harkness Eye Institute at Columbia University, New York, followed by subspecialty fellowship in Corneal Diseases at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School. He is also the founder of UIC’s “goGVHD Fund” which seeks to provide treatments to patients with Dry Eye & ocular GVHD who are unable to pay for them.