After determining that NRTIs may help prevent diabetes, our Jayakrisha Ambati, MD, has found that they may also help prevent dry macular degeneration.
Our Bradley Gelfand, PhD, has found what he believes is the first experimental evidence that exercise can slow or prevent macular degeneration.
A new discovery could lead to the first treatment for "dry" age-related macular degeneration. It could also lead to better treatments for the "wet" form.
Congratulations to our Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, who has received the 2018 RPB David F. Weeks Award for Outstanding Research in the field of age-related macular degeneration. The condition is a leading cause of vision loss in people age 50 or older. The award was established by Research to Prevent Blindness…
Macular degeneration robs millions of people of their sight, and now we know what triggers the inflammation that causes it. That raises the exciting possibility we can stop it. Our Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, (at left in the picture) and Nagaraj Kerur, PhD, have identified a specific enzyme that triggers the…
