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April 25, 2018

University of Utah Health has been awarded the Advisory Board 2018 Workplace of the Year Award. The annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement.

August 07, 2017

Kensaku Kawamoto, Ph.D., has been appointed to a 3-year term on the U.S. Health Information Technology (HIT) Advisory Committee.

June 15, 2017

Erhu Cao, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry at University of Utah Health, was named a 2017 Pew Scholar for his exploration of atomic-scale mechanisms to understand how cell membrane proteins function under normal and diseased states.

June 06, 2017

The Knights Templar Eye Foundation visited the John A. Moran Eye Center to award two $65,000 Career-Starter Research Grants in pediatric ophthalmology.

May 30, 2017

Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and the College of Pharmacy at University of Utah Health (U of U Health) have been awarded a $9.1 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to serve as a Research Center in NCI’s Cancer Systems Biology Consortium (CSBC). HCI is one of nine research institutions nationwide to be selected as a Research Center in the CSBC.

April 12, 2017

University of Utah professors Bradley R. Cairns, Ph.D., professor and chair of Oncological Sciences and senior director of Basic Science at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI); Dana Carroll, Ph.D., distinguished professor of Biochemistry; and Christopher D. Hacon, Ph.D., distinguished professor of Mathematics, were raised to a high honor in science today with their election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

August 04, 2016

The John A. Moran Eye Center leaps to number 13 for "Best Hospitals in Ophthalmology" in the U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking.

September 30, 2015

Moran Resident Brian Stagg has been accepted into an elite scholars program that offers a two-year fellowship.

August 03, 2015

The Moran Eye Center is nationally ranked as one of the top Ophthalmology Departments in the nation according to US News and World Report.

April 01, 2015

Researchers with the Marc Laboratory at the John A. Moran Eye Center were among the top finalists for the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards.

March 19, 2015

John A. Moran Eye Center graduate Michael Feilmeier, MD, was recently named a recipient of the United States Junior Chambers Ten Outstanding Young Americans award.

February 02, 2015

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.

January 20, 2015

Randall J Olson, MD, Chair of University of Utah Health Care's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and CEO of the John A. Moran Eye Center, was awarded the Philip M. Corboy, MD Memorial Award for Distinguished Service to Ophthalmology at the Royal Hawaiian Eye Meeting on Sunday, January 18, 2015. The award is given to an ophthalmologist who "typifies a career of excellence in the service of his or her patients and peers."

August 18, 2014

Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, FACS, FARVO, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Women in Ophthalmology (WIO) Scientific Contribution Award and the Honorary Lecture Award.

February 13, 2014

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has selected Wolfgang B. Baehr, PhD, received the Proctor Medal, an international award recognizing contributions to vision research in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology.

May 07, 2012

Alan Crandall, MD, Receives Clark Lowe Rich Distinguished Surgeon and Mentor Award

May 07, 2012

Wolfgang Baehr, PhD, will be awarded Research To Prevent Blindness Nelson Trust Award for Retinitis Pigmentosa for work studying retinal diseases. Research to Prevent Blindness, a New York-based foundation, has announced that University of Utah researcher Wolfgang Baehr, Ph.D., will receive the Nelson Trust Award for Retinitis Pigmentosa and an accompanying $100,000 to pursue new scientific leads to understand contributors to blindness.