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Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Looking forward to a great course on #TONES with @drvijay_agarwal, Pat Colley from @EinsteinMed @MontefioreNYC, and Makayla McCoskey from @ScheieEye @PennNSG.
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Congratulations to Jean Bennett, Katherine A. High and Albert Maguire, winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, for developing a therapy for inherited retinal degeneration that became the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease. breakthroughprize.org/News/9…
@Penn @ChildrensPhila @RockefellerUniv
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Major milestone for genomic medicine: Penn’s Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, with @childrensphila's Katherine High, have received the @Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their pioneering work treating inherited blindness. spr.ly/6016B675Tp
ALT Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Albert Maguire, MD, and Katherine High, MD, smiling and wearing their Breakthrough Prize medals around their necks
ALT Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Albert Maguire, MD, and Katherine High, MD, posing on the Breakthrough Prize red carpet
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Congratulations to Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire (@ScheieEye) & Katherine High (@ChildrensPhila), recipients of the 2026 @brkthroughprize in Life Sciences in recognition of their pioneering work developing gene therapy for inherited blindness! tinyurl.com/3n5k57ye
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, creators of the first approved gene therapy for blindness, have been awarded Breakthrough prize for life sciences.
Read more about Bennett and Maguire at: bit.ly/4cwgrQl
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
At @ScheieEye's Thyroid Eye Disease clinic, collaborative, comprehensive care is the gold standard. Discover how ophthalmologists Drs. Madhura Tamhankar and César Briceño are transforming the landscape of complex eye care: bit.ly/4838CzN
#Ophthalmology #EyeCare
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Congratulations to @lucieguojam (@ScheieEye), recipient of the NIH Director's Early Independence Award! Learn more about Dr. Guo & her research interests here➡️ tinyurl.com/3nhay5kp #NIHHighRisk @NIH_CommonFund
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Today at AAO 2025, join us at 8am (Room W311E) for the @ARVOinfo/@aao_ophth Symposium: Therapeutic Approaches to Vision Restoration. And don't miss YO ARVO! at 1pm (YO Lounge, Room W208B) for Exploring Careers in Research.
#ARVOMIT #ophthalmology #VisionResearch
ALT Promotional poster for an ARVO/AAO Symposium on Therapeutic Approaches in Vision Research, scheduled for October 20, from 8 -9:15am and a YO ARVO! session at 1-2pm. The event includes a lunch and takes place at the YO Lounge. The poster features the logos of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Ophthalmology at the bottom.
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Avisi’s Scientific Advisors, Eydie Miller-Ellis, MD of @ScheieEye and @PennMedicine, will give an oral presentation at the 40th @AGSDocs Annual Meeting. The paper is about VisiPlate® and will share 6-month results from the VITA Trial.
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
A new Penn Medicine-led analysis shows that while #DiabeticEyeDisease diagnoses are up, the most severe kinds that threaten #vision are significantly down. @ScheieEye @AAOjournal spr.ly/6015LqwQR
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Congratulations to 3 @PennMedicine teams whose publications were selected for the 2025 @CRForumUS Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards! ft. Tomas Aleman (@ScheieEye), @EvanWeberPhD (@ChildrensPhila) & @damrauer (@PennSurgery) tinyurl.com/42ae5acc
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
On Tuesday at @ARVOinfo #arvo2025, I will be moderating a glaucoma minosymposium discussing the bench to bedside pipeline. We have assembled a terrific group of speakers from academia, industry, regulatory agencies, and private foundations to discuss this often opaque process.
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Members of the Cui and Dunaief labs after their talks earlier today ☺️ @ARVOinfo #ARVO2025 @PennMedCSO
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Was a pleasure planning and moderating this mini-symposium with @GokoffskiEyeLab. Personally learned a lot about the process of translating from bench to bedside. Thank you to all of our amazing speakers! @ARVOinfo #ARVO2025
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
National Eye Institute (@NatEyeInstitute) Council meeting on Friday:
Guests Carolyn Stein (@carolyn_sms @BerkeleyHaas @berkeleyecon), Jordan Dworkin (@jddwor), @amberreed1028, @Kapilbharti123 gave fantastic talks on incentivizing 21st century science
Excited to follow-up!
ALT Santa Tumminia, Victor Perez, Tirin Moore, Jordan Dworkin, Kapil Bharti, Carolyn Stein, Maria Grant, Michael Chiang, Pradeep Ramulu, Maurren Maguire, Kathleen Anderson, Don Mutti, Reza Dana.
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Gene editing improved the vision of two children who were born with a genetic form of #visionloss. Dr. Tomas Aleman, @ScheieEye, who helped lead the study, explains the methodology of the treatment. @CBSPhiladelphia spr.ly/6010ja0PC
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
In the BRILLIANCE clinical trial, CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing was found to be safe for a form of blindness in a group that, for the 1st time, included children ft. Tomas Aleman (@ScheieEye), Eric Pierce (@MassEyeAndEar) & @Mark_Pennesi (@CaseyEye) tinyurl.com/3hwt8tau
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Congratulations to Paul Tapino (@ScheieEye) on his recent induction into the @PennMedicine Academy of Master Clinicians! Learn more about Dr. Tapino & his work here➡️ tinyurl.com/yzvvpk7d #PennMedicineAMC
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
#GWAS study with over 11,000 individuals of African descent reveals inherited genetic variants that contribute to the most commmon form of #glaucoma.
Read more in @CellCellPress:
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
@ScheieEye Joan O’Brien
ALT Discovery of known and previously undescribed loci from the discovery mega-analysis of African ancestry individuals
Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute retweeted
Check out our review detailing the role myeloid cells play in inflammatory processes affecting the eye 👁! Accepted article now available online @FEBSJournal. doi.org/10.1111/febs.16177 Strong work by @GuoForward💪🏼 #WomenInSTEM #ophthalmology #glaucoma @ScheieEye