Not-for-profit vision and healthcare organization Lighthouse Guild recently honored two researchers — Dr. Russell N. Van Gelder from the University of Washington School of Medicine and Dr. Yoshikazu Imanishi from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine — for their outstanding achievements and accomplishments in vision science.
Van Gelder is the recipient of the 2017 Bressler Prize for his work on the pathogenesis of uveitis and non-visual photoreception. He reportedly runs an active laboratory investigating uses of polymerase chain reaction diagnostics in uveitis and he has been at the forefront of the field of non-visual photoreception for the past 20 years.
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And Imanishi is the recipient of the 2017 Pisart Award. His work has reportedly dramatically increased the understanding of the etiology of Usher syndrome for which he has discovered a potential cure. In pursing the goal of discovering new therapies for the disease, Imanishi also reportedly invented a new method of drug screening, which is applicable to inherited disorders caused by protein-destabilizing gene mutations.
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