Interested in Stargardt pathogenesis and how RPE altered lipidomic contribute to it? Join me at the "Metabolism of the RPE and retina" session at the upcoming annual ARVO meeting on May 1st, 10.15 AM-11.45 AM EDT. Looking forward to sharing our recent results! #ARVO2021

So happy to be part of the BrightFocus Foundation family! Take a look at our zoom photoshoot in today's award ceremony at ARVO #ARVO2021! Preeti Subramanian Brit C @DianeB1000 Harvard Ophthalmology

Mark your calendar for May 26, 11:30 EDT! Kapil Bharti will present the Sayer #VisionResearch Lecture on a #stemcell therapy for #AMD. Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Learn more at bit.ly/3hn8PmV

(1/4) When Nature Outlook has one of our NEI Intramural researchers quoted in *three* articles, you can’t help but be proud. Nice work, Kapil Bharti!

NEI is now enrolling patients in a study on a possible treatment for #Stargardt disease! Interested in participating? Learn more on our webpage: nei.nih.gov/learn-about-ey…

I couldn’t be more proud of the team. A game changer in #AMD. Using patient #iPSC, a model linking drusen to patient genetics, alternate complement; and discovered drugs to suppress drusen. NEI ARVO Foundation Fighting Blindness BrightFocus Foundation Macular Society AMDF

Are you listening to Michael F. Chiang, MD’s update about NEI research & where we are heading?

Hey #arvo2022! Come check out my poster (F0408) on human RPE heterogeneity. We defined 5 RPE subpopulations with different sensitivity to retinal diseases. Thanks to BrightFocus Foundation and all the colleagues in Kapil Bharti lab for contributing to the work!!

Finally out in PNASNews!! Thank you to @sharmaruchi29 and Kapil Bharti that made this work possible and all the people that contributed to the work! NEI

Ruchi Sharma (@sharmaruchi29) and I will host an ARVO virtual Special Interest Group on Thursday about correlating genotypes to phenotypes in culture models of macular disease with Aparna Lakkaraju (UCSF), Ruchira Singh (Rochester), and Jennifer Chao (U. Washington).

Congratulations to NEI Intramural researcher Mitra Farnoodian Tedrick (from Gurmeet kumar) for receiving the Knights Templar Eye Foundation grant to help develop potential therapies for #Stargardt disease! bit.ly/3NKQXyM

What a achievement! Excellent team work and commitment to bring the product to the clinic! @sharmaruchi29 Kapil Bharti Davide Ortolan francesca barone @ thank you NEI for the support!

@sharmaruchi29 Mit Far Our lab breaks down another dogma - ABCA4, whose mutations lead to Stargardt disease, is only important in retinal photoreceptors. Our lab shows ABCA4 is also important in the retinal pigment epithelium. New insights for gene therapy. Outstanding work Mit Far NEI

Researchers from NEI's intramural program developed a new stem cell-based model of Stargardt disease. First direct evidence that Stargardt-related ABCA4 gene mutations affect RPE. IOVS Journal paper: bit.ly/3UaB1tw Mit Far @BhartiLab

What a pleasant surprise seeing our 3D printed eye tissue selected as the #ImageOfTheMonth. Thanks NEI. Great work team!

1/2 Brian Brooks (NEI) studies ocular development and coloboma (cause of childhood blindness). Beautiful work: critical role of ZFP503 gene in RPE differentiation & optic fissure closure. IOVS Journal: bit.ly/3U5CrWd Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @Gavin_Arno Andrew Lotery

So excited to share our recent Nature Methods manuscript with 3D-printed models of #AMD and the eye. This is what I call a disruptive technology. What an awesome job by our team NEI and NCATS

Dr. Kapil Bharti is the new scientific director of the NEI Intramural Research Program. He’s led our Ocular Stem Cell and Translational Research Section since 2012. Join us in celebrating Dr. Bharti’s new role! Read more: nei.nih.gov/about/news-and… #NEIResearchNews

This works validates a study we published in 2021 about an in vitro #AMD model that recapitulates key cellular features of RPE pathology. Observations in a mouse model were reproduced in patient stem cell derived RPE in a masked study. Great work team! @sharmaruchi29 #ipscs

We are proud that the NEI's Diversity In Vision Research and Ophthalmology (DIVRO) summer internship program has been a key stepping stone for many trainees. Great story about one participant: Luke Nelson (Howard University Columbia University) bit.ly/4drG5TJ