Recent News & Media
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More than 40 scientists, doctors, and industry experts hand-picked from around the country are joining together to make whole eye transplants a reality.
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Dr. Do ranks in Top 100 Women in Ophthalmology Power List for 2021
Diano Do, MD, professor of ophthalmology, ranked in the Top 100 Women in Ophthalmology Power List for 2021.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Making a difference: Dr. Diana Do
Diana Do, MD, professor of ophthalmology, always wanted to pursue a career that would make a difference.
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Faculty Present New Research
On October 18, 2021, five faculty from the Department of Ophthalmology shared their cutting-edge research on a range of eye diseases and topics.
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Awards and honors
Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD, was selected as a co-vice chair for the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group, the longest running national collaborative research on eye disease in children.
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Eye care at the microscopic level
The retina has millions of light-sensitive cells known as rods and cones that initiate the process by which we visualize the world.
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Inventing a new outlook: Restoring sight with electronic photoreceptors and augmented reality glasses
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of vision loss for older Americans, and for patients suffering from atrophic AMD, vision loss is permanent.
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Big data to transform patient care
Faculty are spearheading efforts within the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford to organize electronic health records (EHR) and imaging data to facilitate a broader goal of precision health.
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Mentorship leads to new gene therapy discoveries
Sui Wang, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, attributes her career success to mentorship.
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Training for global care: Ophthalmology resident sets up two eye care programs in the Middle East
Third-year resident Ahmad Al-Moujahed, MD, PhD, MPH, is in the process of creating eye care service programs in not one, but two countries in dire need: Syria, his home country, and Lebanon.
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Stanford Belize Vision Clinic: Training the next generation of eye care providers
The Stanford Belize Vision Clinic (SBVC) was established in 2017 following a hurricane that damaged San Pedro, a town located on the tropical island of Ambergris Caye in northern Belize.
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Fighting blindness across borders
Geoffrey Tabin, MD, Fairweather Foundation professor of ophthalmology and global medicine, is determined to see needless blindness eradicated worldwide during his lifetime.
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A hopeful view on eyesight: Grateful patient celebrates Dr. Kuldev Singh’s 30th anniversary in 2022
Arlene Coffman has faced eyesight challenges since childhood, and the spectre of irreversible vision loss from glaucoma, but with the superb long-time care of Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, professor of ophthalmology, she has kept her vision and now only needs corrective lenses while reading, something she hadn’t been able to do since she was 12 years old.
