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Category: Retina

Dr. Cusick featured in The Daily Progress Ask The Expert

10/14/2022

Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes that causes damage to the blood vessels of the retina — the light-sensitive tissue that lines the back part of the eye that…

UVA Health Blog: What Is a Diabetic Eye Exam? Do I Need One?

10/14/2022

Annual eye exams are an important part of staying healthy. This is especially true if you have diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in people over 40, according…

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…

Faculty Spotlight: New Diagnostic Tool to Aid in Identifying Leading Cause of Blindness

1/21/2022

In the summer of 2017, Xiaorong Liu came to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of biology and psychology, though it was not her first time on Grounds.…

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:  

Ask the Expert: What are the most important steps to protect eye health?

7/29/2020

  Check out this article that features Dr. Michael Cusick.    

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…

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…