Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant on Aaron James, a military veteran who suffered a severe electrical accident. Despite successful attachment and blood flow, ...

US military veteran Aaron James has received the world's first eye transplant after suffering a devastating accident back in 2021.

He praised the NYU team’s “audacity” in even aiming for optic nerve repair and hopes the transplant will spur more research. “We’re really on the precipice of being able to do this ...

UTSW is part of a nationwide ARPA-H initiative to restore vision with a whole eye transplant.

More than 40 researchers from across the country will work with NYU Langone Health and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine as ...

Researchers have already successfully completed the transplant procedure — albeit ... The goal is to fully restore the optic nerve — which carries visual information from the eye to the ...

"We're making great progress in the treatments to promote optic nerve regeneration that could accompany eye transplant," Jeffrey Goldberg, who is leading similar efforts at the Byers Eye Institute ...

Washington said their research will need to tackle restoring vision after an eye transplant by regrowing or regenerating the optic nerve. Part of that is finding a way to actually repair the optic ...

Traumatic optic neuropathy is visual loss caused by trauma to the optic nerve. Injuries, classified as direct or indirect, are also characterized by location. Intracanalicular optic nerve injury ...

“Restoring vision through transplantation sounds like a pie ... regenerating the optic nerve, which carries light signals to the brain; and surgical procedures, Ceradini said.

Rick Fraunfelder, MD The recovery is so much faster than the full thickness corneal transplant so it's very exciting. Narrator Full thickness meaning a conventional corneal transplant where the ...