Alison Suhsun Liu, MD, PhD, assistant research professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has been named the recipient of the 2023 Philip and Elaine Ellis New Investigator in Ophthalmology Research Award, a $40,000 grant to support her work studying dry eye disease.
The University of Colorado Department of Ophthalmology’s ocular stem cell and regeneration research program, CellSight, was awarded the top two prizes in the National Eye Institute’s 3D Retinal Organoid Challenge (NEI 3D ROC). The NEI, part of the National Institutes of Health, launched the three-phase challenge in 2017 to stimulate research using retina organoids. These organoids are similar to human retinas but are grown in a lab from stem cells, enabling researchers to study eye diseases and treatments noninvasively.
Research Neuro-Ophthalmology Retina Awards
A $200,000 grant from the University of Colorado School of Medicine's Program to Advance Physician Scientists and Translational Research (CU ASPIRE) will support researchers to develop new, targeted therapies for those who have experienced vision loss following traumatic brain injuries.
HCP Live
July 26, 2024
Maternal asthma could increase the likelihood of a blinding eye disease in premature infants, according to a new study by investigator led by Zafar Gill, MD, a vitreoretinal diseases and surgery fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology.
Ophthalmology Times
July 22, 2024
Riaz Qureshi, PhD, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, recently published a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine that features an international team of researchers that has established a framework providing guidance to authors, peer reviewers, and editors to rectify spin of harms in systematic review.
Cosmos Magazine
July 22, 2024
An international group of medical researchers led by Riaz Qureshi, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, is calling for a better understanding of “spin” in research papers.
CPR
July 19, 2024
“I think their position is ridiculous and negligent,” said Dr. Michael Puente, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora. “It’s ridiculous that a policy still exists with no scientific evidence to support it.”
Kara Mason
