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 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.…
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…
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.…