The University of Iowa has decided to return the name of our institute to The University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research.
You can read the full text of the University’s press release here.
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January 31st, 2018 -
December 27th, 2017The pharmaceutical company Spark Therapeutics recently announced FDA approval1,2 of a gene therapy known as Luxturna, which has been shown to improve vision in patients with an extremely rare inherited eye disease caused by mutations in the gene RPE65.
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November 30th, 2017Scientists at the WIVR recently published a report in which they tested the efficiency and retinal cell type targeted by 7 different serotypes of adeno-associated virus (AAV) in the human retina.