Bryan W. Jones, PhD, retinal neuroscientist and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh brought his lab over from the University of Utah. In the Eye & Ear Foundation’s […]
Retinal Circuitry and Retinal Degeneration
Retinal Regeneration
Inherited Retinal Conditions: Current Treatments and Future Research
At the start of the Eye & Ear Foundation’s August 6 webinar, “Inherited Retinal Conditions: Current Treatments and Future Research,” Dr. José-Alain Sahel, MD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the […]
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CNN: These goggles helped a blind man see after 40 years
Dr. Jose-Alain Sahel’s optogenetics breakthrough has been featured on CNN. This new kind of gene therapy has allowed a 58-year-old man with retinitis pigmentosa to see objects after 40 years […]
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Falling Walls Announces Science Breakthroughs of the Year: José-Alain Sahel, MD
Berlin, 15 September 2021. Today the first Science Breakthroughs of the Year Awards are announced by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin. The Science Breakthroughs are awarded in 10 categories, […]
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EEF in the Global News This Week (BBC, TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and More)
In a breakthrough study published May 24th in Nature Medicine, Dr. José-Alain Sahel, our Chairman of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, reports a relatively simple yet remarkably effective way to […]
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Breakthrough Study on Restoring Vision to Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients
The darkness descends slowly for people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that affects 2 million people worldwide. The condition is typically diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. Still, […]
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The New York Times | Scientists Partially Restored a Blind Man’s Sight With New Gene Therapy
By Carl Zimmer May 24, 2021 A team of scientists announced Monday that they had partially restored the sight of a blind man by building light-catching proteins in one of […]
A New Era in Retinal Research
The most common hereditary retinal dystrophy in the world is Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Over the past four years, the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, […]
Restoring Vision with Optogenetics
Dr. Sahel spoke about pioneering work in optogenetics, where scientists have attempted to, with success, restore the function of the cone cells in the eye that were not completely lost […]
Getting a Bird’s Eye View
Scientists in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine continue to advance their research on a variety of areas that could eventually help solve the […]
Swimming Towards a Cure: Studying Fish to Understand Vision Loss in Humans
Led by Jeffrey Gross, PhD, the E. Ronald Salvitti Chair in Ophthalmology Research and the director of the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, researchers are studying an unlikely […]
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A Beam of Light to the Brain Can Help to See in the Future
Included below is a translated segment by Kalevi Rantanen published in Helsingin Sanomat, the largest subscription newspaper in Finland, on February 20, 2020. In the future, the blind can see […]
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