Losing vision is devastating. For individuals with inherited retinal degenerations (IRD), vision loss is a daily reality affecting even the simplest of tasks. Furthermore, an accurate diagnosis as to what is creating vision change is …
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Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin Breaks Ground on New Facility
Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin (LEBW), stakeholders, and city officials gathered on January 25, 2018, for the official groundbreaking ceremony of the new Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin facility. LEBW’s Executive Director, Darice Langham, kicked …
Yao Liu, MD, Secures 2018 American Glaucoma Society Mentoring for Advancement of Physician Scientists Award
Yao Liu, MD, assistant professor with the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, was recently awarded a 2018 American Glaucoma Society Mentoring for Advancement of Physician-Scientists Award grant. The $10,000 grant supports Dr. Liu’s study, “Macular …
Nutrition and Eye Research Team Secures Professional Development Grant for 2018 ARVO Presentation
Zhe (Jason) Liu, a biostatistician on the Nutrition and Eye Health Research Team since 2011, has received an Academic Staff Professional Development Grant from UW-Madison. The grant support Liu’s efforts to present at the Association …
2017 ISER/BrightFocus Glaucoma Symposium
The International Society for Eye Research (ISER) and BrightFocus hosted the 2017 Glaucoma Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia on October 5-8, 2017. The symposium brought together leaders in the field of glaucoma and focused on …
Nader Sheibani Receives Stein Innovation Award
ABOUT THE Award Nader Sheibani, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health, has been granted a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award. Up to $300,000 will be provided …
Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Stem Cells, David Gamm, MD, PhD
David Gamm, MD, PhD, discusses Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Stem Cells at the Saving Sight: Macular Degeneration Symposium in October, 2016.
Research on Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Barbara Blodi, MD
Barbara Blodi, MD, discusses current research on treatments for age-related macular degeneration at the Saving Sight: Macular Degeneration Symposium in October, 2016.
UW Eye Research Team Discovers Novel Gene Mutations that Cause Glaucoma
January is national glaucoma awareness month A research team of the UW Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has discovered novel mutations in a gene that are responsible for an important subset of childhood blindness …