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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

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 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.

April 18, 2014

Robert E. Marc, PhD, director of research, John A. Moran Eye Center, has been named by the International Society of Eye Research (ISER) as the recipient of the Houston, Texas-based Retina Research Foundation's 2014 Paul Kayser International Award in Retina Research.

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.