7/12/2024
Rheumatology Meds Seen Cutting AMD Risk — Claims data point to possible protective effect for one common drug class by Randy Dotinga, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today, July 11, 2024 Follow the link…
UVA Health Opens Outpatient Laser Eye Surgery Clinic
6/17/2024
By Eric Swensen UVA Health is opening an outpatient eye surgery clinic offering laser vision-correction procedures, including the well-known LASIK surgery. UVA Health LASIK Northridge is now open at Suite 130…
Get to Know Albert Jun, MD, PhD — Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology
6/13/2024
Albert S. Jun, MD, PhD, a distinguished academic clinician, educator, and researcher, was appointed as chair of the Department of Ophthalmology on May 6, 2024. Dr. Jun came to UVA…
Albert S. Jun, MD, PhD, Appointed as Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology
1/16/2024
The University of Virginia School of Medicine has named Albert S. Jun, MD, PhD, a leader in revolutionizing how corneal transplants are performed, to chair its Department of Ophthalmology. He…
Drs. Ambati & Gelfand Describe How Sex is Impeding Medical Progress
11/17/2023
Medical research that could improve patient outcomes and transform treatments is being hindered by a lack of genetic research tools that consider biological sex, two UVA School of Medicine experts…
Research in Motion – Jayakrishna Ambati, MD
9/12/2023
Video by Harry Moxley "My team and I tackle something called inflammation and how it promotes aging in diseases like Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration, and diabetes, and we’ve been able…
Drs. Ambati, MD & Gelfand Cytosolic DNAs In Age-Related Disorders
9/12/2023
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $3.14 million grant to Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, and Bradley Gelfand, PhD, to further their research into cytosolic DNAs in aging and age-related…
6/30/2023
Bradley Gelfand, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, was awarded a $2.6 million grant for a study titled “Mechanistic basis of sexual dimorphism in antigen-independent IgG1 angiogenesis…
Discovery of Potential New Way to Prevent Vision Loss
2/23/2023
UVA Health School of Medicine scientists have discovered an unknown contributor to harmful blood vessel growth in the eye that could lead to new treatments for blinding macular degeneration and…
Drs. Ambati and Gelfand Receive $3.1M R01 Grant from NIH
10/26/2022
The NIH has awarded a $3.1M grant to Jayakrishna Ambati, MD and Bradley Gelfand, PhD to research their exciting discovery that “jumping genes” called SINE elements have increased activity in…