NEI Research News

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), working with researchers in Iceland, have found that hearing impairment and dual sensory impairment (vision and hearing impairment combined)

A study in mice reveals an elegant circuit within the developing visual system that helps dictate how the eyes connect to the brain.

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

Researchers are making progress toward understanding how some cases of glaucoma begin.

By borrowing a tool from bacteria that infect plants, scientists have developed a new approach to eliminate mutated DNA inside mitochondria—the energy factories within cells.

Researchers have achieved dynamic, atomic-scale views of a protein needed to maintain the transparency of the lens in the human eye.

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.

At the suggestion of a National Eye Institute employee who is deaf, NIH recently amended its official mission statement.

Anthony Movshon, Ph.D., an NEI grantee and director of New York University’s Center for Neural Science, has won the 2013 Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society (APS).

Stephen J. Ryan, M.D., highly regarded for his leadership and tireless advocacy on behalf of the NEI, passed away April 29, 2013.