One week from today: NEI is hosting a Visual Neuro-Plasticity workshop (free & virtual). This is an area where we feel there may be potential for scientific advances and future clinical impact. Weds 1/10/2024 (10am ET). Register: bit.ly/48Dh1a7

Nature is amazing! During my hike by the Potomac River today, I saw numerous retinal ganglion cells #RGC in the frozen canal! BTW, can I publish this 😉 ..., I've heard a journal called "Nature" nature

An incredible symposium on NIH campus (Bethesda) to celebrate OCT imaging (Lasker Award & National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2023!) and look at emerging research and clinical applications. Mon 3/18-Tues 3/19/2024 Agenda & register: bit.ly/48fpJL7

Register and submit your abstract today - we have ~180 attendees already!! 👏👏👏

Congratulations to Dr. Emily Chew (NEI) for receiving the Proctor Medal at #ARVO2024! Beautiful lecture on AMD integrating clinical trials, "food is medicine", basic science, multiomics analysis, and AI. ARVO NIH NIH Clinical Center

Fresh from the GRC Visual System Development 2024! Thank you, Valerie, Jeremy Jeremy Kay, and Justin Justin Kumar ! Congrats, Kristen Kristen Kwan and Bob Bob Johnston 🎉🎉🎉 and the GRS leaders Kiara C. Eldred, Robert Mackin, @M4rik0, Danielle Little @drl5141

Congrats to my former postdoc, now Prof at SYSU, Jingxing Ou, on the discovery of FOXO1 as a key factor in cold adaptation. Many thanks to NEI for supporting our research on hibernation, seemly unrelated to vision. We do have a follow-up story on cornea storage 😉

We are pleasantly surprised that @JohnMichaelBall’s paper, “Using high-resolution microscopy data to generate realistic structures for electromagnetic FDTD simulations from complex biological models,” made the cover of Nature Protocols!🥳