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Register for the Cole Eye Institute and Byers Eye Institute Retina Fellow Surgical Rounds
On Monday, August 30 the inaugural “Cole Eye Institute and Byers Eye Institute Retina Fellow Surgical Rounds” (COBRA) will take place virtually.
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Korot recipient of Ronald G Michels Fellowship Foundation award
The Byers Eye Institute at Stanford congratulates vitreoretinal fellow Edward (Eddie) Korot, MD, for receiving the Ronald G Michels Fellowship Foundation award.
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Dr. Tawna Roberts receives RPB grant
Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatric ophthalmology, has been granted a $100,000 RPB Walt and Lilly Disney Award for Amblyopia Research from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to support eye research into amblyopia.
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Molecular clues could signal eye cancer survival odds
Stanford researchers have discovered that the level of certain proteins in the eye could predict survival risk in patients with uveal melanoma, a relatively rare but deadly form of adult eye cancer.
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Targeting a Human Protein Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Mice
The most common strategy for beating the coronavirus is attacking the viral proteins responsible for disease, but the Mahajan Lab and colleagues focused their research on a human protein that interacts with the virus.
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Providing hope for eye cancer patients
Through funding from The Cancer League, a local cancer charity, Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS, and Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, associate professors of ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford, are the first to identify proteins from inside the eye that predict survival risk in patients with a form of melanoma cancer in the eye.