Category: Ophthalmology Research
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 years, the pain resurfaced…
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…
Grants & Awards
Researchers Receive Grant to Study Retinoblastoma in Children
J. William Harbour, M.D., and Daniel Pelaez, M.D., researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, have been…