Palczewski, a world-renowned scientist, is working to cure blindness using genome editing. As director of UCI’s Center for Translational Vision at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, he has already positioned UCI as a world leader in eye-health research. Palczewski has won both the Cogan Award for most-promising young vision scientist and the Friedenwald Award for continuously outstanding ophthalmology research. IN THE NEWS: The Biophysical Society recently honored Palczewski as one of its three top scientists of 2023, noting his foundational work and its impact on the structural biology of eye health. IN HIS WORDS: “Studying about vision has been a great passion of mine for the past decades. The new discoveries that have been made allow for preservation and, in our cases, even for the restoration of eyesight.”
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