Elizabeth Wood applied to the Pittsburgh Gene Therapy Bootcamp on a whim. The husbandry technician, or “monkey nanny” at the University of Pittsburgh learned about it from a mass email. […]
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Restoring Hearing and Regenerating Hair Cells
Dr. Peter Santa Maria, MD, PhD, opened the Eye & Ear Foundation’s September 13th webinar, “Restoring Hearing and Regenerating Hair Cells” with a quote from Helen Keller: “Blindness separates people […]
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Seeing the Future of Gene Therapy
Many advancements have occurred in the field of gene therapy since the last webinar on this topic. The Eye & Ear Foundation’s June 25th webinar, “Seeing the Future of Gene […]
Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Geographic Atrophy: Advancements in Research and Care
The Eye & Ear Foundation closed out April with a webinar entitled, “Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Geographic Atrophy: Advancements in Research and Care.” The first presenter was Kunal Dansingani, MBBS, […]
Age-Related Macular Degeneration|Retina
S+S, Spring 2024, p. 4 Diseases and disorders of the retinal are major contributors to blindness. Age related macular degeneration falls into this category, and is the leading cause of […]
Siciliano and Muse 2023
Two prestigious annual lectures were held in November: The Siciliano and the Muse. On November 9, the Department of Otolaryngology held an Eye & Ear Foundation sponsored Siciliano Lecture, with […]
Gene Therapy Bootcamp
In June, the Byrne Lab announced the launch of the 2023 Pittsburgh Gene Therapy Bootcamp, aimed at graduate students and postdocs looking to gain experience in the field of gene […]
Awards and Recognition
Wiegand Entrepreneurial Research Award Shaohua Pi, PhD, is the winner of this year’s Wiegand Entrepreneurial Research Award. His project, “Develop real-time retinal oximetry towards the commercialization of visible-light optical coherence […]
Hereditary Hearing Loss: New Innovations for Treatment
Thousands of children are born with profound hearing loss, Otolaryngology Chair Emeritus Jonas Johnson said at the beginning of the Eye & Ear Foundation’s August 24th webinar entitled, “Hereditary Hearing […]
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Using Optogenetics to Restore Vision
The Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was the first in the world to use optogenetics to restore vision. The Eye & Ear Foundation’s August […]
Research Stimulus – The Lifeblood of Innovation
Sight + Sound, Spring 2022 The Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh has bestowed three second round grants funded by the Henry L. Hillman Foundation. The grant funding […]
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Good News for People with Retinal Dystrophies
Sight + Sound, Spring 2022 The UPMC Eye Center, led by Dr. José-Alain Sahel, recently became one of 14 ocular gene therapy treatment centers approved in the U.S. to offer […]
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Optic Neuropathies
Can Kocasarac, MD, has a unique role. As part of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service at the UPMC Eye Center – which he joined this last year — the Clinical Assistant Professor […]
The Chang Lab Awarded $50,000 Shaffer Grant
The Chang Lab – which is part of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh and has been open just over a year — received a one-year $50,000 […]