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February is AMD Macular Degeneration Low vision Awareness Month!

February is national age related macular degeneration (AMD) and low vision awareness month. AMD is the leading cause of low vision and blindness in Americans age 60 years and older and affects 1.6 million Americans.  As the Baby Boomer generation ages, the rates of AMD are expected to reach “…

Education

Leaders in the field meet to educate physicians, researchers and the community at the 2012 Center for Vision Research ‘Inherited Retinal Disease’ symposium On October 29th, 2012, vision scientists gathered to discuss progress in the treatment of inherited retinal diseases. We were so fortunate to attract  leaders in the field…

Blind Gene Therapy

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL MAY SOON APPEAR FOR THOSE SUFFERING A FORM OF GENETIC BLINDNESS. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT RETINAL GENE THERAPY CAN IMPROVE THE EYESIGHT OF PEOPLE BORN WITH A GENE DEFECT THAT ROBS THEM OF THEIR VISION. Dr. William Hauswirth/UF researcher:…

Award: Florida Newsmaker of the Year for Science

2009 “Florida Newsmaker of the Year for Science, awarded by Florida Trend, to William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D., the Rybaczki-Bullard professor of ophthalmology and molecular genetics, COM. Dr. Hauswirth led a team that helped three people born with an incurable form of blindness regain some of their vision. He also showed…