The Moran Eye Center's monthly donor-funded clinic through Moran’s Global Outreach Division is entering its second year of serving uninsured and under-insured Utahns with diabetes and other sight-threatening retinal conditions.
Moran’s Marclab for Connectomics was the first to complete a map of the circuitry of the retina, or connectome. Now, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded lab has produced the...
True to the charitable mission of their medieval forefathers, today’s Knights Templars continue to support humanitarian causes—such as pediatric blindness—impacting generations to come.
John A. Moran Eye Center physicians will lift the burden of blindness from a 57-year-old widow and 17 other Utahns on December 2 as part of its Operation Sight Day...
Each year, ARCS awards $15,000 to a first-year Moran Eye Center resident to seed promising research. Moran then matches the award for the following two years of residency, providing a...
Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division hosted their first booth at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting in New Orleans, sharing their efforts to end curable blindness worldwide.
New laboratories at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah are working to understand how the brain processes visual information, and to unravel the mysteries of...
Exactly how one particular kind of carotenoid that humans don’t usually eat winds up in the part of the eye responsible for sharp, central vision has been a mystery—until now.
Vitreoretinal surgeon and retina specialist, Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, published recently how new experimental research may have a role in precision medicine. In the wet form of AMD, blood vessels...
NIH-funded research provides framework for future studies of AMD biology, therapy An international study of about 43,000 people has significantly expanded the number of genetic factors known to play a...
Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, was honored with the Utah Ophthalmology Society’s 2014 Lewis A. Petersen, MD Humanitarian Award at the society’s annual meeting on February 20, 2015.
