Clinical Care
Miami Transplant Institute at UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital Ranked Nation’s Second-Largest Transplant Center
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Category: Ophthalmology Research
Ophthalmology Research
Ceremonial Wall-Breaking for the Lois Pope Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration Research
With hammers smashing through a fake brick wall, the opening of a first-of-its-kind center designed to bring an end to blinding eye disease moved a significant step closer to reality. A ceremonial “wall-breaking” was…
Ophthalmology Research
Miller School Doctoral Student Explores Connection Between Vision and Cognition
When Diane Zheng, MS, was a teenager growing up in southern China, she watched as her grandmother’s personality faded and transformed as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. Then, in recent…
Ophthalmology Research
First U.S. Patient Treated with Nightstar Gene Therapy for X-Linked Retinitis Pigmentosa
A Puerto Rican patient with X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) is hoping to save his vision after an innovative gene therapy procedure at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of…