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…
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,…
Dr. Ambati & CAVS in VIRGINIA Magazine
3/7/2018
UVA Researchers Gain New Insights on Macular Degeneration | VIRGINIA Magazine More than 2 million Americans suffer from age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of impaired eyesight in older adults.…
UVA Discovers Trigger for Macular Degeneration that Robs Millions of Vision
11/28/2017
In a major step forward in the battle against macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss among the elderly, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a critical…
2017 Sun & Science Fellow Research – Dr. Shinichi Fukuda
11/17/2017
Congratulations to Dr. Shinichi Fukuda! He won 2nd place in the 2017 Sun & Science Fellow Research competition at the 3rd Annual Sun & Science Conference, National Educational Resident &…
