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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dr. Ambati – UVA Doctor States Possible Solution to Stop Macular Degeneration
10/2/2018
A University of Virginia doctor thinks he could have a cure for a common type of blindness. Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, who’s the director of the Center for Advanced Vision Science at…
Dr. Ambati – AUPO 2018 Awardees Selected
10/2/2018
Jayakrishna Ambati, MD - RPB David F. Weeks Award for Outstanding AMD Research Dr. Ambati is Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Ophthalmology, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,…