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John D. Ash was awarded three year grant titled: “Using AAV-STAT3 and AAV-PIM-1 vectors to induce broad-spectrum protection of photoreceptors and PRE” from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. This project has the potential to lead to therapeutics to preserve photoreceptors and RPE in a large number of patients of retinal degeneration…
The Foundation Fighting Blindness, a national non-profit organization dedicated to finding treatments and cures for blinding retinal diseases, recognizes William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D., of the University of Florida College of Medicine, with its Llura Liggett Gund Award. The Foundation’s highest research honor, this award has only been…
Faculty members from within the Department of Ophthalmology and the Center for Vision Research were recognized for having developed technologies that were licensed within the 2012 calendar year. Those recognized included Clay Smith, Ph.D., Paul Hargrave, Ph.D., Hugh McDowell, Ph.D., Donald Dugger, William Hauswirth, Ph.D., Sanford Boye, Frank Dyka, Ph.D.
Selection was based upon her paper, “The Human Rhodopsin Kinase Promoter in an AAV5 Vector Confers Rod- and Cone-Specific Expression in the Primate Retina” by a panel of esteemed ARVO members who served as the judges. The award includes a $10,000 grant to Dr. Boye, complimentary Annual Meeting registration,…
Drs. Christine Kay and Shannon Boye participate in Rare Disease Day at the Founders Gallery at the UF College of Medicine. Joining them are Sarah St. Pierre and her son, Creed who has RPE65- Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). Sarah is the founder of ‘Creed’s Cause’, a foundation whose purpose…
