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Mount Sinai creates eye and vision research institute
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The Mount Sinai Health System has created a new eye and vision research institute, according to a press release.
The Mount Sinai/New York Eye and Ear Eye and Vision Research Institute will focus on finding treatments and cures for eye conditions and disease, in addition to researching ways to preserve vision and reverse blindness, the release said. Stem cell and regenerative biology of the visual system, ocular imaging, and genetics and genomics of eye disease will all be studied.
Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA, Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine professor of ophthalmology and director of the uveitis division, will serve as the institute’s director.
“We know that when clinicians and researchers work together on clinical problems, the result is breakthroughs that advance the care of patients with eye disease, and that is our goal,” he said in the release.