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Wilmer eye institute

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Medicine

A visionary new tool for cataract surgery

Published Oct 31, 2024

Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new color-changing hydrogel that could reduce complications from cataract surgery, one of the world's most commonly performed procedures

T. Boone Pickens visiting the Smith Building

Philanthropy

Pickens Foundation gives $20M to Wilmer Eye Institute

Published Aug 7, 2023

Gift from foundation established by late philanthropist will support vision-saving research, professorships

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Vision for Baltimore

Vision realized

Published Nov 1, 2022

Vision for Baltimore celebrates providing 10,000 pairs of eyeglasses for Baltimore City students

Jan McDonnell, Wilmer Director Peter J. McDonnell, Wilmer Board of Governors’ Chair Sanford Greenberg, Sue Greenberg and Dean of the Medical Faculty/CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Paul B. Rothman

Wilmer Eye Institute establishes the Sanford and Susan Greenberg Center to End Blindness

Published Oct 14, 2021

The new center will initially create four professorships for young scientists, providing a stable source of funding to cover their salaries and many other expenses for up to seven years to get their careers—and potentially transformative research—off the ground.

Vision for Baltimore

Glasses boost academic outcomes

Published Sept 9, 2021

Three-year clinical study is the most robust analysis to date linking access to eyeglasses with higher test scores, especially for students having the most trouble in school

Dr. Esen Akpek with Oleksandr Popruzhenko

Restoring vision

Published Dec 21, 2020

After losing his vision in a hand grenade explosion, Oleksandr Popruzhenko underwent surgery at the Wilmer Eye Institute to restore his eyesight—and his quality of life