About Scheie Eye Institute
Scheie Eye Institute is the Department of
Ophthalmology for the University of Pennsylvania
Health System. Scheie Eye Institute is dedicated
to:
- excellence
in patient care
- educating future
clinical ophthalmologists and vision scientists
- community
eye care needs through outreach
- advancing
the frontier of research to prevent blindness
and vision loss
Research
At Scheie’s F.M.
Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, scientists investigate
the causes of important eye conditions that may
be treatable with molecular therapies, including:
- macular degeneration
- diabetic retinopathy
- hereditary retinal degenerations
- cataract
- severe myopia
Scheie is a world
leader in research on retinal degenerations,
especially age-related macular degeneration (AMD),
and is consistently in the top five in the nation
in funding by the National
Eye Institute.
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