Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, FARVO, MBA is the CEO of Tsubota Laboratory and Professor Emeritus, Keio Univ School of Medicine. An internationally recognized dry eye specialist, Prof. Tsubota has been working on the pathogenesis and treatment of dry eye for much of his career. His latest research activities spotlight myopia due to the myopia boom affecting Japan and East and Southeast Asia.  His research focuses on the hypothesis that violet light has a suppressive effect against the progression of myopia.