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January 04, 2022

Researchers studying age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have clarified what constitutes genetic risk or protection for the blinding disease, showing that certain forms of protection amount to an “ace in the hole” that can overcome an equal amount of risk.

December 08, 2021

Recent outcomes reflect the Moran Eye Center's dedication to providing exceptional care while fulfilling its teaching role as part of an academic medical center at the University of Utah.

December 08, 2021

University of Utah Health has led the way as health care systems nationwide pursue process and policy improvements. At the John A. Moran Eye Center, this commitment extends to a broad range of measures to provide the best possible procedural outcomes.

December 02, 2021

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has selected the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah to receive an unrestricted annual grant of $115,000 to support eye research.

December 01, 2021

Moran Eye Center surgeon-scientist Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, recently received a Knights Templar Foundation (KTEF) grant to support her research into Stickler syndrome, a hereditary childhood disorder that can cause retinal detachments, which, if left untreated, can cause blindness.

November 22, 2021

The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation is honoring two Moran Eye Center student physician-scientists with grants to support research projects during their medical school residencies at the University of Utah.

November 16, 2021

A nationwide Ophthalmology Times magazine survey of eye center chairpersons and residency program directors placed the John A. Moran Eye Center as the No. 11 Best Overall Program in the country.

October 29, 2021

About a dozen John A. Moran Eye Center faculty members will soon be joining colleagues across the country for the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting to learn and discuss the latest and greatest in care.

October 28, 2021

Scientists at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah have discovered a new type of nerve cell, or neuron, in the retina.

October 20, 2021

Newly published research details how a team of scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and Spain’s Miguel Hernandez University successfully created a form of artificial vision for a blind woman using a prosthesis hardwired into her brain.

October 20, 2021

For more than 30 years, John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Richard “Dick” Normann, PhD, has been working to create a form of artificial vision for people who have completely lost their sight. With the successful testing of the Moran|Cortivis Visual Prosthesis recently in Spain, the dream is becoming a reality.

October 18, 2021

A research team including John A. Moran Eye Center scientists has identified reading ability and reading speed as key measures for evaluating visual decline in patients with dry, late-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

September 20, 2021

John A. Moran Eye Center surgeon-scientist Leah A. Owen, MD, PhD, is among 28 elite, early-career vision scientists selected to present their research to Congress this September. Her research is working to prevent retinopathy of prematurity, a blinding eye disease affecting premature babies.

September 16, 2021

Yesterday, during a meeting of the Executive Appropriations Committee of the Utah State Legislature, lawmakers unanimously approved $90 million in funding for the Utah Translational Research Building at the University of Utah Huntsman Mental Health Institute.

July 27, 2021

The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah continues to rank among the nation’s top eye centers according to U.S. News & World Report, taking the No. 11 spot on the magazine’s most recent annual list.

July 19, 2021

Research conducted at the Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine (SCTM) at the University of Utah’s John A. Moran Eye Center explains why people carrying a block of genetic variants strongly associated with the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) may develop the disease and identifies a potential therapeutic pathway for slowing or even reversing disease progression.

July 19, 2021

John A. Moran Eye Center faculty will share skills and present research at the upcoming American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Annual Meeting this week.

May 11, 2021

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah report critical new insights into how cells mount an attack against melanoma tumors.

May 10, 2021

For years, the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Clinical Ophthalmology Resource for Education (CORE) has offered worldwide access to high-quality ophthalmic learning. The educational role of CORE’s free, peer-reviewed curriculum became even more critical in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic halted international travel and disrupted training programs near and far.

May 06, 2021

An international collaboration of scientists publishing in Nature Reviews Disease Primers this week advocate for a new way of thinking about and finding treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD)—the developed world’s leading cause of severe vision impairment for people aged 55 and older.

May 04, 2021

The University of Utah has honored John A. Moran Eye Center CEO and Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Professor and Chair Randall J Olson, MD, with the rank of Distinguished Professor.

April 27, 2021

Scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will present their latest work at the upcoming annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the world’s largest and most respected community of eye and vision researchers.

March 31, 2021

The Ophthalmologist has named the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Kathleen B. Digre, Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, and Liliana Werner to its 2021 Power List of the Top 100 Women in Ophthalmology.

March 30, 2021

The John A. Moran Eye Center’s latest Focus annual report is here, featuring a tribute to Alan S. Crandall, MD, who embodied Moran's vision to provide hope, understanding, and treatment.

March 26, 2021

In 2020, the Moran Eye Center co-hosted the first Global Ophthalmology Symposium to bring together fellowship trainees from across the nation.

March 23, 2021

The Moran Eye Center is partnering with local service organizations to identify eye care needs in underserved populations across the state.

March 19, 2021

Backed by a new five-year, $2 million National Eye Institute Research Project Grant, the lab of Frans Vinberg, PhD, at the John A. Moran Eye Center is seeking a deeper understanding of photoreceptors and how major blinding diseases.

March 17, 2021

The new Utah Retinal Reading Center at the John A. Moran Eye Center plays a pivotal role in the development of therapies.

March 16, 2021

A map of retinal disease generated by Moran’s Marclab for Connectomics offers a deeper understanding of a host of neurodegenerative diseases.

March 16, 2021

Alan S. Crandall, MD, embodied the John A. Moran Eye Center's vision to provide hope, understanding, and treatment.

March 01, 2021

The mission of the Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division consists of three parts: provide state-of-the-art care to patients; serve as leaders in the clinical education of uveitis locally, nationally, and internationally; and contribute to the field through research.

March 01, 2021

Clinical updates from the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division, including a new CMV screening protocol, managing patient care amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing clinical trials, and selected research publications.

March 01, 2021

The John A. Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division took shape in 2003. Albert T. Vitale, MD, Akbar Shakoor, MD, and Marissa B. Larochelle, MD, comprise the only uveitis division between Colorado and California and are among a small number of fellowship-trained uveitis specialists nationwide.

February 26, 2021

An oxysterol that accumulates in the eye with age can transform choroidal endothelial cells; interfering with the process might help patients with treatment-resistant age-related macular degeneration.

February 12, 2021

A study about women who contracted COVID-19 during pregnancy found that those with severe or critical COVID-19 to be at greater risk of dying and experiencing serious complications compared with asymptomatic women with COVID-19.

February 12, 2021

One of ophthalmology’s most prestigious research societies and other prominent organizations are tapping John A. Moran Eye Center physician-scientist Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, for leadership roles in 2021 as her work continues to earn international recognition.

February 02, 2021

Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, is investigating how lipids known as VLC-PUFAs could be used to prevent eye disease thanks to a new way to synthesize them for research.

December 15, 2020

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has selected the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah to receive an unrestricted annual grant of $115,000 to support eye research over the next five years.

December 01, 2020

Researchers including the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, are identifying the scope of the problem as outreach experts like Moran’s Jeff Pettey, MD, work to solve it.

November 02, 2020

Ophthalmology leaders nationwide have ranked the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah as among the top 12 programs in the nation when it comes to clinical care, research, and education.

October 22, 2020

John A. Moran Eye Center physicians will restore vision to 12 Utahns in need on Saturday, October 24, by performing free cataract surgery during Moran’s Operation Sight Day.

October 13, 2020

Moran’s 2020 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar is an accomplished researcher who has already contributed to medical advances using new imaging technology to detect eye diseases earlier than ever before.

September 22, 2020

New research from a team including scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah provides insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time.

September 10, 2020

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 first pathoconnectome showing how eye disease alters retinal circuitry.

September 10, 2020

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 first pathoconnectome showing how eye disease alters retinal circuitry.

September 01, 2020

Kristina Callis Duffin M.D., current co-chair of the University of Utah’s Department of Dermatology, has been named full chair effective August 1, 2020. Callis Duffin will oversee all clinical, research, and education programs in the department.

August 27, 2020

The National Eye Institute (NEI) has granted John A. Moran Eye Center surgeon-scientist Leah A. Owen, MD, PhD, a prestigious career development award to support her innovative research into a blinding eye disease affecting premature infants.

August 26, 2020

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded John A. Moran Eye Center scientist Bryan W. Jones, PhD, funding as part of an international group of neuroscientists that will explore the connections between neurons, known as synapses.

August 19, 2020

A software based on artificial intelligence (AI) developed in collaboration with John A. Moran Eye Center physician-scientists Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD, and Monika Fleckenstein, MD, could assist age-related macular degeneration (AMD) research worldwide.

August 13, 2020

Rena N. D’Souza, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D., has been selected by Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, to lead the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) as its ninth director.

July 28, 2020

U.S. News & World Report has ranked the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah No. 13 in the nation for providing excellent patient care.

June 29, 2020

The Dee family has been investing in the Utah health care community for nearly a century, including efforts at the Moran Eye Center to fight age-related macular degeneration. The Dee Foundation also recently funded a new transmission electron microscope to support research in the Moran lab of Bryan W. Jones, PhD.

June 18, 2020

At the forefront of LASIK and PRK research, physicians at the John A. Moran Eye Center continue to push the field forward. Their most recent study compared the effectiveness of two painkillers given to patients following PRK.

June 03, 2020

As Moran Eye Center’s 2019-2020 global outreach fellow, Sophia Fang, MD, created behind-the-scenes tools and practices needed to make sustainable, effective eye care in outreach settings a reality.

June 01, 2020

In the future, a two-minute retina scan could let doctors spot eye diseases—or even the risk to develop them—long before any symptoms appear.

April 28, 2020

The University of Utah School of Medicine Alumni Association has chosen John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Nick Mamalis, MD, to receive its 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award.

April 10, 2020

Jennifer Majersik, MD, Division Chief of Vascular Neurology at University of Utah Health, will be serving as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair for Health for six months at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute in Newcastle, Australia beginning January, 2021.

April 01, 2020

The Ophthalmologist magazine has named five John A. Moran Eye Center faculty members among the most influential figures in ophthalmology, placing them on its 2020 Power List.

February 21, 2020

Using the only imaging modality of its type in the U.S. in the past 2 1/2 years, Moran physician-scientists are working to revolutionize how clinicians diagnose and treat diseases.

February 21, 2020

Since its inception in 1972, the Utah Lions Eye Bank (ULEB) has facilitated the gift of sight worldwide. An extension of the Moran Eye Center, the nonprofit ULEB is dedicated to the mission of sight restoration and preservation through transplant, research, and education.

February 21, 2020

For this edition of Clinical Focus, we asked some of our leading clinicians and researchers to highlight the role of imaging and electrophysiology in the care of patients.

February 21, 2020

Moran Eye Center researchers continue to shed new light on the potential of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) to treat eye disease.

February 10, 2020

Retinal specialist Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD, an internationally recognized expert on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), has joined the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.

December 09, 2019

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded $490,000 in grants to support ongoing, innovative vision research at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.

November 07, 2019

Brian C. Stagg, MD, joined the John A. Moran Eye Center in September, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. He also performs cataract surgery and has a special interest in geriatric ophthalmology.

November 01, 2019

Monika Fleckenstein, MD, recently joined the John A. Moran Eye Center, specializing in degenerative retinal diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

October 31, 2019

The latest discovery by Moran’s Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, sheds light on potential new treatment approaches for age-related macular degeneration.

October 24, 2019

Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, joined the John A. Moran Eye Center in October 2019. She specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of children and adults with retinal conditions.

October 08, 2019

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has selected John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, as the recipient of its 2020 Mildred Weisenfeld Award.

October 07, 2019

Outstanding education, research, and clinical care put the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah among the top 10 programs in the nation, according to the latest Ophthalmology Times survey results.

September 30, 2019

The ARCS Foundation Utah generously extended its support to not one but two Moran residents for 2019. Each scholar brings a robust history of research and service to the role.

September 11, 2019

John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and his patients at the University of Utah played a key role in the recent discovery of the first genetic cause for a rare eye disease.

September 11, 2019

John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and his patients at the University of Utah played a key role in the recent discovery of the first genetic cause for a rare eye disease.

August 27, 2019

Two John A. Moran Eye Center researchers recently won grants by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to work on the Human Cell Atlas, an international collaboration to map all cells in the human body for better understanding of health and disease.

July 31, 2019

Physician website Doximity has ranked the ophthalmology residency program at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah among the nation’s top 10 for a second year running.

July 31, 2019

Physicians around the country voted the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah one of the nation’s top eye hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report 2019-2020 Best Hospitals for Ophthalmology rankings.

July 09, 2019

A world-renowned expert in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine (SCTM) will hold a prestigious Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair at the University of Utah.

June 18, 2019

The John A. Moran Eye Center recently honored seven of its University of Utah faculty scholars who hold endowed chairs and professorships and the generous donors who made the positions possible.

June 13, 2019

Since 1956, the Knights Templar Eye Foundation has supported research and helped launch the careers of clinical and basic researchers focused on the prevention and cure of potentially blinding diseases in infants and children.

May 13, 2019

John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, will receive the 2019 Paul Kayser/Retina Research Foundation Global Award later for her efforts to develop a better treatment for the leading cause of childhood vision loss and blindness.

May 09, 2019

A new study by researchers from the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine suggests women who experienced hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are at greater risk for a blinding eye disease.

April 29, 2019

John A. Moran Eye Center physician and researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, has been ranked a distinguished professor of ophthalmology at the University of Utah.

April 23, 2019

After more than three decades of caring for patients and working to improve eye surgery through research, Nick Mamalis, MD, will become president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery during the group’s annual meeting in May.

April 23, 2019

Scientists and physicians from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will present research and lead workshops on a vast array of topics during the upcoming annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

April 19, 2019

Support the John A. Moran Eye Center during the University of Utah’s first-ever U Giving Day, a 36-hour fundraising effort starting May 21.

March 28, 2019

You might compare most researchers to a scalpel, honed for a specific type of work through years of training. But the newest scientist at the John A. Moran Eye Center seems more akin to a deluxe Swiss Army knife.

March 27, 2019

The Heed Ophthalmic Foundation recently chose three current and recent John A. Moran Eye Center graduates to receive 2019-2020 Heed Fellowship Awards.

March 22, 2019

Sixteen Moran ophthalmologists and optometrists have earned top marks when compared with their peers, scoring in the top 10 percent nationwide for patient satisfaction in 2018.

March 12, 2019

Check out the John A. Moran Eye Center’s latest Focus annual report.

March 11, 2019

Gregory S. Hageman, PhD, and his talented team at the John A. Moran Eye Center have developed the first therapy for age-related macular degeneration based on a better understanding of the genetics of the disease and a personalized medicine approach.

March 08, 2019

Governor Gary R. Herbert will honor Randall J Olson, MD, professor and chair of the University of Utah Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and CEO of the John A. Moran Eye Center, with a 2019 Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.

March 08, 2019

Governor Gary R. Herbert will honor Randall J Olson, MD, professor and chair of the University of Utah Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and CEO of the John A. Moran Eye Center, with a 2019 Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.

March 06, 2019

The Adobe Systems Inc. founder and his wife have gifted $5 million to support ongoing research at the John A. Moran Eye Center.

March 04, 2019

Aidan’s retinopathy of prematurity was becoming more severe, but the delicate surgical and laser treatments that could possibly save the young boy's vision weren’t available in his home of Trinidad and Tobago. Physicians referred the family to Moran’s pediatric retinal specialist, Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD.

March 01, 2019

The University of Utah Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Chair and John A. Moran Eye Center CEO built a world-class institution from the ground up starting 40 years ago—and continues to lead it toward a bold new future.

February 28, 2019

Moran Eye Center research has prompted new instrument sterilization guidelines that stand to impact millions of procedures nationwide.

February 11, 2019

Thirteen percent of Americans (about 38 million people) suffer from migraine, and every one of them has a different experience with the condition.

January 17, 2019

Three John A. Moran Eye Center ophthalmic technicians traveled 6,200 miles to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in December to train 12 nurses from the remote Pacific island nation to conduct thorough vision screenings.

December 10, 2018

In 2016, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that costs due to back pain trail only diabetes and heart disease in total health care costs in the United States.

December 03, 2018

John A. Moran Eye Center physician-scientists Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, will receive awards in 2019 from the Macula Society, a prestigious invitation-only international group focused on new research in retinal and macular diseases.

November 09, 2018

A resurgence of syphilis worldwide is bringing new attention to the serious damage the venereal disease can have on vision.

October 31, 2018

New research by the Angelucci Laboratory at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah offers insight into how the brain combines pieces of visual information into one larger scene.

October 25, 2018

The John A. Moran Eye Center's exceptional clinical care, residency program, and research place it among the top 10 programs in the nation, according to a survey of top leadership at eye centers across the country.

October 24, 2018

More than a dozen specialists and researchers from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will be traveling to Chicago this week to share their expertise with colleagues from around the country at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).

October 23, 2018

Working with the Waldron family, glaucoma specialists and researchers at the John A. Moran Eye Center are gaining valuable new insights to exfoliation syndrome (XFS), a systemic genetic disorder that’s often diagnosed first by ophthalmologists.

October 08, 2018

Three decades ago, University of Utah bioengineer Richard A. Normann, PhD, had a radical new idea he hoped might create artificial sight for people who had lost their vision due to disease. If the eyes couldn’t function anymore, why not let the brain do all the work?

October 02, 2018

New research from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah highlights a little-known phenomenon that can produce vivid yet harmless hallucinations among older adults as America’s population ages.

October 01, 2018

Ariana M. Levin, MD, will receive a $15,000 award from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation to support her research.

September 25, 2018

Leading researchers discussed the future of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in health care, telerobotic eye surgery, and diagnostic imaging at the John A. Moran Eye Center’s recent Translational Research Day.

June 12, 2018

John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Liliana Werner, MD, PhD, loves travel and a good mystery—and her work provides plenty of both.

May 09, 2018

Helping children with disorders that cause the eye’s natural lens to dislocate is tricky. Now, new research from the John A. Moran Eye Center is identifying surgical techniques that provide the best long-term outcomes for kids.

May 07, 2018

The John A. Moran Eye Center's Clinical Ophthalmology Resource for Education (CORE) website aims to close educational gaps near and far. The unique website provides open-access, peer-reviewed ophthalmic education for medical providers and students around the world.

May 07, 2018

A groundbreaking new study by John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, moves physicians one step closer to better treatments for premature babies at risk for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)—the leading cause of childhood vision loss and blindness.

April 23, 2018

Over the past three decades, Moran Eye Center’s Nick Mamalis, MD, and Liliana Werner, MD, PhD, have vetted some of the most innovative devices in eye care.

April 23, 2018

A new imaging tool at the Moran Eye Center—the first of its kind in the U.S.—has allowed retinal specialist Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and colleagues to identify subtle changes in retinal cells that point to disease earlier than ever before.

April 18, 2018

A prolific new body of research from the John A. Moran Eye Center is vetting a variety of phacoemulsification settings and techniques aimed at making cataract surgery as efficient— and safe—as possible.

April 15, 2018

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has chosen John A. Moran Eye Center surgeon and researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, as the recipient of its 2018 Mildred Weisenfeld Award. A skilled pediatric vitreoretinal surgeon and prolific researcher, Hartnett’s National Institutes of Health-funded research lab studies the mechanisms of normal and aberrant blood vessel formation in the eye.

April 15, 2018

The latest technology to arrive in the nonprofit Intermountain Ocular Research Center at the John A. Moran Eye Center—laser-assisted Refractive Index Shaping—stands to transform cataract surgery.

April 15, 2018

For 20 years running, Moran's Nick Mamalis, MD, has surveyed physicians to examine trends behind IOL explantation surgeries. His 2017 survey found the number of multifocal removals had increased, with ophthalmologists citing glare or optical aberrations experienced by patients as the most common reasons for removals.

February 21, 2018

John A. Moran Eye Center Scientist Behrad Noudoost, MD, PhD, is making significant new discoveries about working memory and its impact on the brain’s processing of visual information.

October 09, 2017

Carotenoids are vital nutrients for vision, but how do they reach our retinas?

September 21, 2017

The research will look at pain in military members and veterans.

September 11, 2017

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 retinal signaling.

September 06, 2017

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.

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.

June 01, 2017

Two of the nation’s top associations in the field of ophthalmology honored John A. Moran Eye Center physicians and researchers in May for their leadership and work.

January 31, 2017

Moran’s David Krizaj, PhD, has identified a new protein that regulates intraocular pressure in glaucoma and is designing a potentially sight-saving treatment.

December 27, 2016

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), a New York-based foundation, has recently awarded a grant of $115,000 to the Department of Ophthalmology.

December 01, 2016

Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, and colleagues at the John A. Moran Center and Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, were looking for a way to tease apart the effects of preeclampsia on the risk of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an eye disease found in very premature infants.

November 10, 2016

We've still got a long way to go in supporting women in science and medicine. Nationwide, only 20 percent of assistant professors in STEM and medical colleges are women. And pay inequity is alive and well; A recent study of New England researchers found that male scientists received more than 2.5 times the startup funding than their female counterparts did.

November 10, 2016

Scanning this glossy photo, it doesn’t look like we have a gender problem: A dozen young female scientists are striving and thriving, tackling medical problems from how burns transform fat to the relationship between the microbiota and immunity.

October 18, 2016

"Coffee" was the most tweeted food in the continental U.S. between mid-2014 to mid-2015 followed by "beer" then "pizza".

August 04, 2016

The CARMA Center at the University of Utah Health Care kicked off a clinical trial aiming to improve the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

July 05, 2016

Researchers will monitor potential infections among group of U.S. athletes traveling to Brazil

February 05, 2016

Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, FACS, FARVO has been named the 2016 recipient of the Paul Henkind Memorial Lecture and Award by the Macula Society.

January 19, 2016

Moran received a grant in the amount of $115,000 from Research to Prevent Blindness to help fund our research in the prevention of blinding diseases.

December 31, 2015

In 2015, University of Utah Health Sciences investigators made notable discoveries in topics ranging from cancer to diabetes to lower back pain. Here are some of our favorites moments from the year.

December 28, 2015

NIH-funded research provides framework for future studies of AMD biology, therapy

December 28, 2015

November 23, 2015

Dr. Bala Ambati presented his ground breaking invention of implantable discs to replace eye drops following cataract surgery at the TedIndia conference.

November 05, 2015

University of Utah pediatrician and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Carrie Byington, M.D. reflects on her career path and the obstacles she overcame as a Mexican-American woman growing up in south Texas with no physician role models. “It’s not about success. There are successes and those are great. There are failures and those are hard,” she confides. “It’s about how you spend your time. In the amount of time you have here, how are you going spend it, how are you going to make a difference?”

October 22, 2015

Astrophysicist, biologist, computer scientist, genetic virologist, glaciologist, molecular animator—what do you imagine when you hear these words? “What do you see when you picture a scientist?” asks TED writer Karen Eng in a provocatively titled article, “12 badass scientists…who also happen to be women.”

September 28, 2015

Academic research can be a solitary pursuit, cloistered in clinics and labs physically—and intellectually—distant from patients. But what if the patients themselves worked the science? Helped test the equipment and trouble-shoot the computer interface? What if they “broke” things and helped with the “fix”?

July 06, 2015

BioEYES, a K-12 science educational program hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science, is launching a new center sponsored by the University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Research Enterprise.

April 27, 2015

Should patients who develop complications after surgery return to the same hospital?

April 01, 2015

Glaucoma is caused by increased pressure in the eye. Dr. David Krizaj has discovered that we can block those pressure sensors with pressure-reducing drugs, and we could protect cells from dying.

March 17, 2015

Cynthia Furse’s teenage daughter was skilled in math and science and had voiced an interest in engineering. But based on a career aptitude test that showed she liked helping people, a school counselor insisted nursing was a better fit. Why nursing and not medical school – or engineering, for that matter? And why should engineering be perceived as incompatible with wanting to help people, Furse wondered.

February 26, 2015

Not so rare: 1 in 10 Utahns is affected by a rare or undiagnosed disease.

November 10, 2014

Suleika Jaouad's future was exceptionally bright. She had just graduated from Princeton, moved to Paris and was on her way to northern Africa to launch her dream of becoming a foreign correspondent.

November 09, 2014

How we communicate evolves as we learn, grow and become more sophisticated. The same scientists whose scholarly beginnings started with "See Spot Run" or "Green Eggs and Ham" publish papers with titles like, "Inhibition of mTORC-1 mediated translational elongation in colorectal cancer prevention and therapy."

November 09, 2014

Communication is the process of replacing beliefs with information.

August 12, 2014

Complex 3D scientific animation is replacing rough sketches and furthering the understanding of complex molecular movement and development. And University of Utah researcher and TED fellow Janet Iwasa, Ph.D., is collaborating with top scientists across the country to create comprehensive molecular models for different viruses, including the AIDS virus.

February 19, 2014

Study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; results offer hope for future treatments for retinal degeneration

November 19, 2013

David P. Sklar, M.D., is editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine. Listen as he explains the role of an academic journal in health care transformation and shares insights on how writers and researchers can improve their likelihood of getting published.

November 04, 2013

For almost 90 year- and through four name changes - Academic Medicine has been a forum of information and exchange for administrators and faculty of academic medical centers in the United States and abroad. In their session titled "The Art of Writing and Getting Published," David P. Sklar, editor-in-chief, Jennifer Campi, senior staff editor, and Mary Beth DeVilbiss, managing editor share tips to increase your chances of getting published in the journal.

November 04, 2013

Dean Y. Li, M.D., chief scientific officer and vice dean of research at University of Utah Health Sciences interviews Sidra Qureshi, a fourth-year medical student at Texas A&M Medical Center. Sidra believes that medicine can - and should - take a leading role in promoting diversity and expanding the definition of diversity in healthcare. Broadening our definition, Sidra says, will increase trust in the healthcare system, improve patient care, and potentially reduce waste and errors.

November 04, 2013

New mentoring network connects peers across the country to brainstorm plans for better inclusion in the biomedical workforce. The Clinical and Translational Science National Research Mentoring Network is working to ensure the biomedical workforce becomes more diverse.

November 03, 2013

Why is making time for scholarship in academic medicine so hard to achieve

November 03, 2013

Vivian Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, emphasizes that while much is in flux in academic medicine, the role of scientists and educators remains core to our future success.

September 26, 2013

A University of Utah researcher and ophthalmologist helped confirm important findings from a group of Icelandic scientists who uncovered a rare risk locus for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

September 19, 2013

A new study published by The University of Utah's John A. Moran Eye Center highlights significant progress toward isolating the underlying causes of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a condition that commonly affects prematurely born babies who have received intensive neonatal care.

July 25, 2013

Drawing pictures. As simplistic and unscientific as it sounds, pictures have been one of the most powerful tools scientists have used to help them understand and explain the unknown. Today, the rough sketches of centuries past have given way to elaborate computer animations that are helping researchers understand the inner workings of some of the most mysterious and miniscule science there is - that of cell processes deep within our bodies.

April 16, 2013

Clearly, the drug development process is under significant stress. Vicki Seyfert-Margolis, Ph.D. former Senior Advisor for Science Innovation and Policy at the U.S Food and Drug Administration, recently visited the University of Utah Health Sciences to talk about some of the most significant challenges facing drug development and offer some possible solutions.

April 12, 2013

If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then our current drug development model is ripe for change. "If we want health care and medical products to be accessible, they have to be available at a price that is affordable," says Frank F. Weichold M.D., Ph.D., the Director of Critical Path and Regulatory Science Initiatives at the FDA. "And as such, we have to rethink how we develop drugs, how we develop products, and how we approve them."

May 07, 2012

The American Journal of Pathology, the leading global forum for reporting quality original research on cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease, has published a research paper originating from the John A. Moran Eye Center examining the role of erythropoietin (EPO) signaling in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

May 07, 2012

Jun Yang, PhD, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine and researcher at the John. A. Moran Eye Center, is committed to studying the molecular mechanisms underlying hereditary retinal degeneration and hearing loss.

May 07, 2012

The University of Utah's M.E. Hartnett, MD, has a full calendar at this week's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting in Orlando. She is organizing and moderating a cross-disciplinary symposium that addresses retinopathy of prematurity: the epidemiology, environmental effects from oxygen and nutrition, stem cell studies on repair of injured vessels and clinical treatments. She is also chairing an ethics committee on vulnerable populations in clinical research.

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.