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Curcio is the director of the UAB age-related macular degeneration histopathology lab and also is scientific director of the Alabama Eye Bank. Her research focuses on aging, age-related macular degeneration with emphasis on pathobiology, image validation through histology and collaborative genomics studies.
Curcio has written or co-written more than 90 journal articles and has presented abstracts at vision meetings every year since 1985. She has delivered about 150 invited lectures at major meetings, congresses and universities in North America and Europe. She is on the editorial boards of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Current Eye Research, and Progress in Retinal and Eye