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A novel amniotic membrane product, Biovance 3L Ocular (Celularity), seems highly promising for its role in ocular regenerative procedures, according to Vicente A. Diaz, MD, MBA, an assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
- June 01, 2022
Congratulations to our faculty members on being nominated by their peers for this award!
- May 31, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Howard has been appointed President of the Connecticut Society for Eye Physicians as of July 1, 2022. Please join us in congratulating her as she takes on this new role.
- May 31, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kathy Stoessel has been named as the recipient of the 2022 Yale Medicine Distinguished Clinician Career Award. This award honors faculty members who are widely recognized as distinguished clinicians and who have devoted the bulk of their career to Yale.
- May 31, 2022
It is our distinct pleasure to announce that Dr. Ninani Kombo has been named as the recipient of the 2022 Leah Lowenstein Award from the Yale School of Medicine. This award honors one medical school faculty member annually, chosen across all departments, who is the model of a medical educator whose humane teaching reaches and influences all students regardless of gender, race, or socioeconomic background. These distinct characteristics were upheld by Leah Lowenstein herself, and I can think of no better recipient than Dr. Kombo, who is the Director of Medical Student Education for our department, for this fabulous award.
- May 31, 2022
Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, MBA, FACS was recently inaugurated as the Connecticut State Medical Society’s (CSMS) 183rd President during the organization’s 2021 Annual Meeting. Dr. Adelman is Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, and the director of the Retina Center at the Yale University School of Medicine.
- May 31, 2022
We are pleased to announce the promotion of James Kempton, MD to Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology & Visual Science at the Yale School of Medicine.
- November 08, 2021Source: Deep Learning of the Retina Enables Phenome - and Genome-wide Analyses of the Microvasculature
The microvasculature, the smallest blood vessels in the body, has key roles in maintenance of organ health as well as tumorigenesis. The retinal fundus is a window for human in vivo non-invasive assessment of the microvasculature. Large-scale complementary machine learning-based assessment of the retinal vasculature with phenome-wide and genome-wide analyses may yield new insights into human health and disease.
- September 13, 2021Source: Loss of polycomb repressive complex 1 activity and chromosomal instability drive uveal melanoma progression
Chromosomal instability (CIN) and epigenetic alterations have been implicated in tumor progression and metastasis; yet how these two hallmarks of cancer are related remains poorly understood. By integrating genetic, epigenetic, and functional analyses at the single cell level, we show that progression of uveal melanoma (UM), the most common intraocular primary cancer in adults, is driven by loss of Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) in a subpopulation of tumor cells. This leads to transcriptional de-repression of PRC1-target genes and mitotic chromosome segregation errors. Ensuing CIN leads to the formation of rupture-prone micronuclei, exposing genomic double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) to the cytosol. This provokes tumor cell-intrinsic inflammatory signaling, mediated by aberrant activation of the cGAS-STING pathway. Read more...
- August 31, 2021Source: News 8 WTNH.com
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Another COVID-19 pandemic health-related issue doctors are now treating is children’s vision after months and months of too much screen time. That can lead to a condition called myopia, which is nearsightedness.