NEI Research News

Dr. Belinda Seto joined the National Eye Institute (NEI) as its deputy director on April 7, 2014.

Dr. Brian Brooks of NEI has been elected into one of the nation’s most respected medical honor societies, the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

The National Institutes of Health is releasing funding opportunities to build a new arsenal of tools and technologies for unlocking the mysteries of the brain.

The National Eye Institute (NEI) has announced funding opportunities for two new high priority research areas.

Ronald Davis, Ph.D., an NEI grantee and a geneticist at Stanford University School of Medicine, has been selected to receive an award from the Warren Alpert Foundation.

Three researchers supported in part by NEI have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a nonprofit organization that advises the U.S. government on matters of science and technology.

Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and NEI grantee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, has been honored with a 2013 Brain Prize.

The NEI, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has become the first U.S. government agency to develop a formal collaborative research and training agreement with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS).

Around Halloween time, health experts fear that consumers will harm their eyes with unapproved decorative contact lenses.

The National Eye Institute mourns the loss of M. Velma Dobson, Ph.D., a long-time advisor and expert on NEI clinical research studies in infants and children. She passed away on Friday, April 9 from Lou Gehrig’s disease.