The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is part of a major undertaking that will bring together more than 40 scientists, doctors, and industry experts from around the country to make vision-restoring whole eye transplants a reality.. The award of up to $56 million is from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (THEA ...

A team of surgeons in New York has performed the world's first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn't yet known whether the man will ...

He said that his team specializes in studying inflammatory cells, which control inflammation in the transplanted eye, and glial cells that support and protect neurons. When surgeons at NYU Langone performed the world’s first whole-eye and partial-face transplant in 2023, the patient’s optic nerve was too damaged to support vision recovery.

Surgeons believe a man could have his declining vision restored thanks to a £52,000 ophthalmic machine. Tomasz Kuczynski, 42, was the first eye patient at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in ...

Later that year, Steve underwent his first cornea transplant in this right eye, followed by his second cornea transplant in his left eye in 1973. “As a graduate veterinarian, I was able to do a small animal internship and residency and eventually become a practicing clinician all because of the vision-saving surgery I had received,” Steve said.