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 […]
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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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 […]
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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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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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 – 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 […]