José-Alain Sahel, MD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology; The Eye & Ear Foundation Endowed Chair University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director, UPMC Vision Institute 2025 was a […]
OPH Looks Back on 2025
José-Alain Sahel
Celebrating Innovation: The 2025 Wiegand Entrepreneurial Award Reception
On Monday, September 15, the Eye & Ear Foundation hosted a distinguished reception in Pittsburgh to honor the recipients of the Bruce and Barbara Wiegand Entrepreneurial Research Awards. The event […]
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Federal Funding Cuts Disrupt Promising Vision and Hearing Research at Pitt
Pitt’s Eye and Ear researchers have already lost more than $4 million in federal funding for three major grants, interrupting promising research. In fiscal year 2024, the University of Pittsburgh […]
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NetraMind Innovations Now Official
A company founded by four faculty members in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh is now official. On June 11, 2025, NetraMind Innovations signed with the University […]
Ophthalmology Clinical Trials
Dr. José-Alain Sahel, MD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the UPMC Vision Institute, called the topic of the Eye & Ear Foundation’s May […]
Digital Twin of the Eye
A project that the Chair of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. José-Alain Sahel, MD, started in Paris, has continued in Pittsburgh. “We have been fortunate to develop this […]