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Apr 30, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Marco Bassetto, PharmD, PhD, Awarded Grant From BrightFocus Foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program
BrightFocus Foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research program recently awarded a two-year, $200,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant to Marco Bassetto, PharmD, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher for his innovative research in vision health.
Dec 11, 2025 | UC Irvine News
National Academy of Inventors names two UC Irvine faculty members as fellows
Tibor Juhasz and Marios Papaefthymiou recognized for societally beneficial innovations
Sep 18, 2025 | UC Irvine News
The science of sight
Researcher Krzysztof Palczewski leads UC Irvine’s bold pursuit to cure blindness
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Renee and Peter Horner continue a family legacy of supporting vision care, inspired by Renee’s parents and her mother’s experience with age-related macular degeneration. Their generous support of the UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute helps advance innovative research and treatments while bringing hope to patients and shaping the future of vision care.
Internationally recognized retina researcher Frans Vinberg, PhD, has joined the UC Irvine Brunson Center for Translational Vision Research, drawn to the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute’s growing reputation and the promise of challenging new research opportunities to cure blindness.
The goal is simple but audacious: to restore vision with a whole-eye transplant. Across the country, research teams are racing to make that breakthrough, including UCI Health neuro-ophthalmologist Kimberly Gokoffski, MD, PhD, and vision scientist Frans Vinberg, PhD.
Aug 14, 2026 | Ophthalmology Times
Personalizing dry eye treatment by addressing disease at its source
Marjan Farid, MD, director of Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery at the UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, explores the evolving approach to dry eye treatment in Ophthalmology Times. Her article highlights emerging therapies designed to address the underlying causes of dry eye disease, including meibomian gland dysfunction and corneal epithelial damage, rather than simply treating inflammation.
Apr 03, 2026 | ABC 7 Eyewitness News
Over 3 million bottles of eye drops sold at CVS, Kroger, more voluntarily recalled
Dr. Sanjay Kedhar of UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute states, “The FDA is issuing this warning as a safety measure because they can’t guarantee the sterility of the eye drops” ... “For the most part, most patients will be fine, even with a contaminated drop, usually a reversible issue, but the best thing is to stop using it”.