Recent News

  • Buddy Lazier and Indy 500 Car Visit WIVR
    Monday, November 24, 2014 - 15:00

    Buddy Lazier drove his Indy 500 car with prominent Wynn Institute for Vision Research (WIVR) and University of Iowa logos in the 2014 Indy 500 race to promote awareness of inherited eye diseases and the research efforts of the WIVR. More recently, Buddy visited the WIVR labs and brought his Indy car along to lead the 2014 homecoming parade as its Grand Marshal! Read more about Buddy Lazier's connection with the WIVR here.

  • Fingert and Alward Visiting Profs in Western Australia
    Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 15:00

    Drs. Alward and Fingert delivered Raine lectures at the University of Western Australia in Perth as well as at the state conference of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, which was held in Kalgoorlie September 5th through 7th.

  • Fingert Lab awarded a 1.8 million dollar grant to study the genetic causes of normal tension glaucoma from the NIH
    Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 15:00

    Glaucoma is a common disease of the optic nerve that affects over 60 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of blindness and visual disability in the United States. However, the biological pathways that lead to glaucoma are not well understood, and this has hindered efforts for early detection and treatment of this condition. Consequently, there is great need to clarify the causes of glaucoma at the molecular level.

  • Fingert selected for 2014 RPB Physician-Scientist Award
    Monday, March 10, 2014 - 15:15

    Dr. John Fingert has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness Physician Scientist Award. This Research to Prevent Blindness award will be used to investigate the causes of glaucoma that occur in people with low intraocular pressure (normal tension glaucoma). The Fingert lab recently discovered that extra copies of the TBK1 gene (gene duplications or triplications) are one of the most common known causes of normal tension glaucoma. The RPB Physician Scientist Award will be used to support studies investigating how TBK1 gene duplications lead to glaucoma and vision loss.

  • Iowa Glaucoma Alumni receive AGS Awards
    Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 15:15

    The American Glaucoma Society gave out five research awards this year and two went to Iowa Alums.

    Shandiz Tehrani, MD, PhD | Casey Eye Institute
    Title: The Optic Nerve Head Actin Cytoskeleton in an Animal Model of Glaucoma
    Supported by: AGS and Allergan

    Mid-Career Physician Scientist
    Karen M. Joos, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt Eye Institute
    Title: miRNA Alterations in Glaucomatous DBA/2J Mice
    Supported by: AGS and Alcon

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