News & Media
The inaugural Stanford Ophthalmology 2019 Annual Report, "Vision Matters" highlights the department's recent news and accomplishments. Click here to read or download the PDF and click here to visit the Annual Report web page.
Illustration by Alton Szeto, MFA, © 2019.
News Stories
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Hewlett Award Winner Mark S. Blumenkranz, MD, MMS: “I love what I do. It’s like a dream.”
The Albion Walter Hewlett Award is a Department of Medicine-sponsored award honoring an exceptional physician with ties to Stanford.
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Stanford Retinal Innovations Conference RSVP
Stanford University will be hosting a retinal innovations conference on October 2-3, 2020. Please leave your contact information to RSVP for the event.
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Direct-to-consumer genetic database used to identify AMD variants
CHICAGO — Researchers used a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service to identify patients with CFH Y402H and ARMS2 A69S alleles, the genetic variants most commonly associated with an increased risk for developing age-related macular degeneration, a speaker said here.
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SOAR resident receives grant from Knights Templar Eye Foundation to support retina research
Luciano Custo Greig, MD, PhD, a current trainee in the Stanford Ophthalmology Advanced Research (SOAR) Residency Program, is the recipient of a Career Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation for his research on regeneration of retinal ganglion cells from endogenous progenitors.
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Precision Medicine Will Rely on Proteins, Not Just DNA
Like an oasis in the desert, the splendor of precision medicine seems perpetually on the horizon. Even as technological advances bring genome sequencing into routine clinical use, it’s becoming clearer than ever that genomics reveals only part of the clinical picture.
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Myung Receives Research to Prevent Blindness Grant
David Myung, MD, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, has been granted a $300,000 RPB Career Development Award by Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to support his eye research.
