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…
UVA Honors Faculty for Their Research and Scholarship: Jayakrishna Ambati, School of Medicine
3/17/2022
A dynamic, innovative and creative physician-scientist and a preeminent leader in the field of macular degeneration research, Jayakrishna Ambati’s innovative applications of data science have revealed a slew of surprising…
UVA Discovers Harmful Inflammation Trigger in Lupus, Macular Degeneration
1/21/2022
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have made a discovery linking lupus, a potentially debilitating autoimmune disorder, and macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. The two diseases share…
Scientists Find Toxic Buildup in Eyes of Patients with Blinding Macular Degeneration
10/12/2021
Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients with geographic atrophy, an untreatable, poorly understood form of age-related macular degeneration that causes blindness, new research from the University of…
Inside View: Keep Your Vision Sharp with Six Tips from an Eye Expert
8/16/2021
Check out the latest article featuring our Dr. Michael Cusick on macular degeneration in the Fall 2021 Vim & Vigor issue. Article written by Kelly Casey:
Discovery IDs Potential Way to Halt Blinding Macular Degeneration
1/31/2020
Researchers have successfully treated age-related macular degeneration in mice after finding an unexpected link between the two main forms of the blinding eye disease, the leading cause of vision loss…
Narendran to Present at AUPO Forum
1/31/2020
Congratulations to Siddharth Narendran, MD, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Advanced Vision Sciences (CAVS), on being honored to present his work at the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology…
UVA Honors Its Leading Researchers
1/31/2020
Dr. Ambati, DuPont Guerry II, Professor, Vice Chair for Research, and Founding Director of Center for Advanced Vision Science (CAVS), was honored by UVA for being among the top 25…
Seeking a Cure for Macular Degeneration
11/30/2018
Dr. Ambati and CAVS (Center for Advanced Vision Science) has recently been featured on UVA Illimitable talking about their macular degeneration research. “If macular degeneration were a country, it would…
Ambati Honored for Pioneering Work on Age-Related Macular Degeneration
10/2/2018
Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, vice chair for research in the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology and founder of the Center for Advanced Vision Science, has been selected as the…