Feature Stories

Winter 2006: Gaining Clarity
(Miami Magazine)
Breakthrough treatments such as Avastin are protecting and restoring vision in patients with wet macular degeneration

Winter 2005: A Vision to Restore Eyesight
(Miami Medicine Magazine)
Research on innovative therapy to treat macular degeneration

Winter 2005: Honoring a Visionary
(Miami Magazine)
Bascom Palmer research investigator wins prestigious national award

Fall 2005: Building Greatness (Miami Medicine Magazine)
The construction of the university’s new research building, including expansion space for Bascom Palmer’s research program

February 2005: Medical school gets translational research center (Veritas)
Bascom Palmer partners in new research center on the medical school campus

Fall 2003: Interdisciplinary Investment
(Miami Medicine Magazine)
Story on the Walter G. Ross Chair program which supports exploratory science, including ophthalmic research

Summer 2003: Focused Efforts
(Miami Medicine Magazine)
Story on Bascom Palmer’s comprehensive glaucoma research program

Press Releases

12/29/2004: Newest Treatment for Macular Degeneration Approved by FDA

5/5/2004: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Researcher Receives Nation’s Most Prestigious Award for Young Scientists

5/1/2004: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is the National Eye Institute’s Newest Research Center

5/1/2004: Eye Drops May Delay or Prevent Glaucoma in African Americans at Higher Risk

12/1/2003: Saving the Optic Nerve: Bascom Palmer scientists report identification of a key molecular participant in “stroke” to the eye

11/17/2003: New Procedure On Track To Revolutionize Cataract Surgery

10/24/2003: Bascom Palmer Faculty Member Receives Prestigious Award for Life-long Contributions to Ophthalmology

10/15/2003: Feeding the Lens: Remarkable feature of crystalline lens structure discovered by Bascom Palmer scientist

10/1/2003: How the Cornea Heals: Bascom Palmer scientists report on novel repair mechanisms in cornea important to laser vision correction outcomes

6/13/2003: Two Bascom Palmer Scientists Win Prestigious Career Development Grant Awards from Research to Prevent Blindness

10/17/2002: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Glaucoma Physician Awarded for Life-Long Research Contributions

8/14/2002: M. Elizabeth Fini, Ph.D. Wins 2002 Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize

6/25/2002: Research to Prevent Blindness Awards $110,000 in Support of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s Research

2/26/2002: Bascom Palmer Chairman Receives Prestigious Rank Prize for Invention

1/1/2001: Clinical Trial Results Yield New Strategies to Halt Glaucoma Damage