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New Grant Provides Retinopathy Screenings for Diabetics
Diabetes is a complex condition that requires patients to check in with providers across a number of specialties. Multiple appointments with practitioners can mean endless rounds of scheduling, traveling and...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Research
Posted - Oct 24Read More
New Genetic Ophthalmologist Specializes in Inherited Eye Diseases
Ophthalmic genetics, the branch of medicine concerned with inherited eye diseases, is a relatively new subspecialty with less than 100 practitioners worldwide. In July 2017, the team at UK Advanced Eye Care...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Posted - Sep 13Read More
UK Global Ophthalmology Hosts Inaugural Outreach Clinic
On May 5, the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in partnership with the Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) and the Huffman &...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Center of Excellence in Rural Health
Posted - Jun 1Read More
UK Global Ophthalmology Program to Host Award-Winning Film
The University of Kentucky Global Ophthalmology (UK GO) program, a new program with a mission to prevent avoidable blindness by fighting eye disease across the Commonwealth and beyond, has partnered with the...
Tags - Ophthalmology
Posted - Dec 13Read More
UK HealthCare's New Advanced Eye Care Clinic Enhances Patient Care, Education and Research
In the continuous pursuit of providing unsurpassed excellence in health care to the people of Kentucky and beyond, the UK HealthCare Advanced Eye Care Clinic opened its’ doors to the future of eye care at UK...
Tags - Ophthalmology
Posted - Mar 23Read More
Shriners and Patients Celebrate Topping Out of New Facility at UK
Shriners Hospitals for Children and UK Healthcare celebrated an important milestone in the construction of the $47 million Shriners Hospitals for Children Medical Center (SHCMC) on Tuesday — the “topping out”...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Clinical, Shriner's Hospital
Posted - Dec 3Read More
Fukuda Receives Prestigious Awards Given to Outstanding Japanese Researchers
Dr. Shinichi Fukuda, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati at the University of Kentucky's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has received two prestigious awards to...
Tags - Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Research
Posted - Oct 15Read More
Markey Hosting Gala to Support Expressions of Courage Exhibit
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center will host a special gala on Saturday, Feb. 7, to support its second annual Expressions of Courage exhibit this summer. Markey's Expressions of Courage exhibit is...
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Posted - Jan 21Read More
HIV/AIDS Drugs Could Be Repurposed to Treat Age-Related Macular Degeneration
A landmark study published today in the journal Science by an international group of scientists, led by the laboratory of Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice chair of the Department of Ophthalmology...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, 490
Posted - Nov 20Read More
UK Study Published in PNAS Reveals Mechanisms of Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration
University of Kentucky researchers led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice-chair in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky, have made revealing discoveries...
Tags - 490, Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Posted - Nov 4Read More
Yasuma Receives Fight for Sight Postdoctoral Research Award
Tetsuhiro Yasuma, postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has been selected to receive the 2014 Fight for Sight...
Tags - Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Awards and Recognition, 490
Posted - Jul 28Read More
Wright Receives Retinal Research Foundation Award
Charles Wright, postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has received The Loris and David Rich Postdoctoral Scholar Award...
Tags - Ophthalmology
Posted - Jun 6Read More
Yasuma Receives Prestigious ARVO/ALCON Award
Reo Yasuma, postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has been named one of only four recipients worldwide to receive the...
Tags - Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Posted - May 15Read More
Kerur Receives Prestigious Award From National Eye Institute
Nagaraj Kerur, a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has received a prestigious K99/...
Tags - Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Awards and Recognition
Posted - Mar 19Read More
Bastos-Carvalho Receives Bayer Grant
Ana Bastos-Carvalho, a visiting scholar in the Ambati research group in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, received the Global Ophthalmology...
Tags - Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, 490
Posted - Jan 13Read More
Ambati Receives Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award
Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice chair in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine,is one of...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Faculty, 490
Posted - Dec 17Read More
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