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12/09/2025

Let's wrap up the year by taking a look at some of the biggest milestones of 2025 at the Byers Eye Institute! 🙌

#2025

12/08/2025

A new brain implant stands to transform human-computer interaction and offer innovative treatments for epilepsy, spinal cord injury, ALS, stroke, and blindness.

Created in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Byers Eye Institute at Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania, these chip-based brain implants could reshape treatment for many life-altering illnesses.

Read more: https://buff.ly/N8YGKig

📷: Columbia Engineering

12/05/2025

Not all toys are eye-deal. About one in 10 children's eye injuries treated in the emergency room are caused by toys. Choose gifts that spark joy — not hospital visits.

12/04/2025

We're proud to be well-represented at the FloRetina Congress in Florence, Italy this week! 💪

Today, our faculty, Drs. Quan D**g Nguyen, Diana Do, and Charles DeBoer moderated a symposium called "Innovations from the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford," which featured many of our faculty and researchers highlighting some of their most recent innovative work. (Program agenda: https://buff.ly/M8Ji8xr)

Pictured: Drs.Jia-Horung Hung, Amir Akhavanrezayat, Carolyn Pan, Theodore Leng, Charles DeBoer, Quan D**g Nguyen, Diana Do, Than Ngoc, Darius Moshfeghi, and Yasir Sepah.

12/04/2025

We're excited to welcome Dr. Shazia Dharssi to the Byers Eye Institute team! ⭐

Dr. Dharssi is a clinical assistant professor specializing in oculoplastic and orbital surgery.

We look forward to Dr. Dharssi's work in improving the diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases. 🤝

12/03/2025

🤝 Meet Jason Xiao, MD, a PGY-2 resident at the Byers Eye Institute❗

🏠 Hometown: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

📚 Education: University of Chicago (BA, MD)

🌲 Why Stanford: Stanford stands out to me for its incredibly diverse clinical training across four sites, paired with an environment that sincerely fosters inquiry and innovation. Alongside, I’ve found the people here to be among the most inspiring and welcoming that I’ve ever met.

🥼 Career aspirations: Academic ophthalmology with significant involvement in medical education.

🕹️ Favorite things to do: Board games, playing tennis, making dishes from different cuisines, and social hikes.

🎧 Fun fact: As I listen almost exclusively to podcasts, my taste in music is terrible.

12/02/2025

Professional MMA fighter Mark Climaco shares his experience with SMILE laser eye surgery performed by Dr. Edward Manche at the Byers Eye Institute.

SMILE is the latest in laser vision correction for myopia (nearsightedness), providing LASIK-like outcomes in a minimally-invasive procedure.

Learn more about the procedure and why it's ideal for contact sport athletes in the full video: https://buff.ly/KVlyfuB

12/01/2025

Our SOAR resident Dr. Aniket Ramshekar presented his research during a recent donor visit from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.

Dr. Ramshekar was awarded the 2025 Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career Starter Grant.

He's using this grant to advance his proposal, "Investigating the role of VEGFR2-mediated signaling in retinal ganglion cells in a model of retinopathy of prematurity," with his research preceptor, Dr. M.E. Hartnett, and others at the Byers Eye Institute.

11/28/2025

Did you know? 💡 Your blink is powered by one of the fastest muscles in your body—the orbicularis oculi—which contracts in under 1/10th of a second.

Blink and you'll miss it!

11/27/2025

We at Byers Eye wish everyone a joyful and peaceful Thanksgiving. What are you grateful for today?

Please note our offices will be closed on Thursday, November 27.

11/26/2025

🤝 Meet Mikaelah Johnson-Griggs, an intern at the Byers Eye Institute❗

🏠 Hometown: Oregon

📚 Education: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (BS), University of Michigan Medical School (MD)

🌲 Why Stanford? Stanford had the key aspects I was looking for in a residency program: an inclusive training environment with supportive co-residents, dedicated experts passionate about education, and abundant opportunities to explore my various research and medical education interests.

🥼 Career aspirations: I aim to become a clinically and surgically excellent ophthalmologist who promotes diversification within healthcare and actively engages with the local community.

🌁 Favorite thing to do in the Bay Area: Hiking at local nature preserves and exploring beaches.

⚽ Fun fact: I played Division 1 soccer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

11/25/2025

We're excited to share that Zhuokun Ding, PhD, Stelios Papadopoulos, PhD, and Paul Fahey, PhD, — all members of the Andreas Tolias Lab at Byers Eye Institute — have won the Aspirational Neuroscience Annual Research Award for 2025! 🏅

The Aspirational Neuroscience Awards exist to honor and highlight groundbreaking scientific research into how learning and memory are physically encoded in the brain.

The Tolias Lab team's research found that neurons with similar visual preferences tend to form stronger connections, a pattern also seen in AI vision models.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/qyzbnoq

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