Category: DOVS News

Congratulations Dr. Kefalov! Vladimir Kefalov, PhD has been awarded a new R01 grant titled ‘Opsin signaling in mammalian rod photoreceptors’ for four years beginning June 1 2020.

Congratulations to Dr. James Liu on receiving the Heed Foundation Fellowship this year! The Heed Ophthalmic Foundation was formally established on May 29, 1946 and the first two fellows were appointed in 1947. The Heed Ophthalmic Foundation has appointed more than 1,100 Heed Fellows and provided over $11 million dollars in support of their postgraduate […]

Jonathon Lin, PhD is the recipient for this year’s Dr. William Ellis Award, Congratulations!! Dr. William Ellis Award: established in 1990 by Dr. Ellis and awarded to a senior student in recognition of meritorious research in ophthalmology.

Congrats and Good Luck! Mitsukuni Yoshida has been selected as a finalist in the National Regeneron Postdoctoral Scientist Prize competition. Join us in wishing him good luck as we all hope he gets selected as the winner!

Georgia Wilke was selected as the Max & Evelyn Grand Prize winner! The Max & Evelyn Grand Prize: Was endowed in 1985 by Dr. Gil Grand in honor of his parents. The award is presented annually to a fourth year medical student who demonstrates excellence in ophthalmological research or clinical care.

Dr. Carla Siegfried has been elected to a three year term on the Washington University Faculty Senate Council.

Please welcome Jordan Jones, OD, FAAO who recently joined our team of staff optometrists!

Dr. Josh Morgan has been awarded a grant from the National Eye Institute for his project “Development and Function of Glomerular Microcircuits in the Visual Thalamus”.

Congratulations to Dr. Williams! Phil Williams, PhD has been awarded a two year grant from BrightFocus Foundation for his project titled “Metabolic determinants of differential retinal ganglion cell survival and regeneration”

Congratulations! Dr. Phil Ruzycki (with co-investigator Dr. Apte) has been awarded a two year grant from the BrightFocus Foundation for a project titled  “Effects of AMD Risk Alleles on the Innate Immune System.”

Congratulations to Dr. Margaret Reynolds! She has received a one year grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation for her project titled “Refractive Surgery for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder”

Dr. Jongshin Kim from Dr. Apte’s lab has received a grant from the VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation for one year for his project “Microglial Immunometabolism and Hippo Pathway in Retinal Degenerative Diseases”

It’s that time of year! We’re excited to share the winners of the Fall 2019 cycle LEAP Challenge.

The Skandalaris Center’s Leadership and Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program, or LEAP, provides industry connections and gap funding to teams of Washington University faculty, postdoc, staff, and graduate-student researchers and inventors. There are multiple cycles of LEAP each year.

The advice was simple and blunt: “Stop stressing out and focus on what you love.” Washington University in St. Louis senior Harsh Moolani was skeptical. As a pre-med student, Moolani believed he needed to pack his resume with clubs, activities and academic accolades. Then he considered the source: a remarkable woman with a successful career, good friends — and a few months to live. The two had become close at a local hospice, where Moolani was a volunteer and she was dying of Parkinson’s disease.