Flaum Eye Institute
in the News
Eye Institute Renamed to Honor Longtime Supporters
On November 10, 2009 President Joel Seligman announced that the center will be renamed the David and Ilene Flaum
Eye Institute.
Flaum Eye Institute receives
$6M thank-you - by
Patti Singer, October 22, 2009, Democrat & Chronicle
As a thank you to the Doctors who performed 13 surgeries, Adeline Lutz is leaving 6 million to UREI.
New Hope for People Blinded by Stroke
- by
Tom Rickey, April 1, 2009, University of Rochester
Medical Center News
By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on
a computer every day for several months, patients
who had gone partially blind as a result of suffering
a stroke were able to regain some vision, according
to scientists who published their results in
the April 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience...
Eye
Institute Procedure Could Give sight to Iraqi
Girl - by
Kate Perry, June 2, 2008, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Iraqi Shaymaa Al-Ithawi has spent the last five
years steering her daughter away from the dangers
that threaten all blind children — hot stoves
or busy streets — but also the unimaginable
terrors that come with living in Baghdad...
UREI
Reseacher Recieves March of Dimes Grant to Study
Early
Childhood
Glaucoma
Causes
R-News,
February 14, 2008
The March of Dimes awarded the University of Rochester
Medical Center a grant to help moms and babies
in Rochester...
How Aaron Gives Hope to Thousands - by
Mark Henderson, June 12, 2006, Times of London
A baby boy from Windsor will become the youngest British child to receive
an artificial cornea in a pioneering operation today that offers hope
to thousands of children who are born blind... |
