Department of Ophthalmology & Scheie Eye Institute

Congratulations to Jean Bennett, Katherine A. High and Albert Maguire, winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, for developing a therapy for inherited retinal degeneration that became the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease. breakthroughprize.org/News/98 @Penn @ChildrensPhila @RockefellerUniv

Major milestone for genomic medicine: Penn’s Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, with @childrensphila's Katherine High, have received the @Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their pioneering work treating inherited blindness. spr.ly/6016B675Tp

Congratulations to Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire (@ScheieEye) & Katherine High (@ChildrensPhila), recipients of the 2026 @brkthroughprize in Life Sciences in recognition of their pioneering work developing gene therapy for inherited blindness! tinyurl.com/3n5k57ye

Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, creators of the first approved gene therapy for blindness, have been awarded Breakthrough prize for life sciences. Read more about Bennett and Maguire at: bit.ly/4cwgrQl

Please save the date for this CME Symposium with @VindicoMedEd, "Capitalizing on Advances in Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) Treatment." Our own Madhura Tamhankar, MD, who serves as Activity Chair for the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, will be featured. #ThyroidEyeDisease

Madhura Tamhankar, MD, was elected to the Academy of Master Clinicians at Penn Medicine.  Dr. Tamhankar is celebrated as a clinician exemplifying the Academy's highest standards of professionalism, humanism, and excellence in medicine.  #ClinicianExcellence #Ophthalmology

Scheie Eye Institute ophthalmologists have proudly volunteered with Puentes de Salud, a nonprofit health organization, for longer than a decade. Please read on to learn more about our community’s past and present partnership. @PuentesDeSalud #ScheieEye #Ophthalmology #Volunteer

Please join #ScheieEye in congratulating & welcoming our 2026 Resident #Ophthalmology Matches: Ana Garcia, MD; Adam Hidad, MD; Kimberly Jin, MD; Taiki Nishihara, MD; Ricardo Tochimani, MD, MS; & Tianyuan (Ben) Yao, MD (iPower Resident)! #ResidentMatchDay #UPenn #Education

Congratulations to Qi N. Cui, MD, PhD (@CuiLab) for receiving a prestigious Research to Prevent Blindness (@RPB_org) Career Advancement Award! We are very proud of your commitment to vision research. Learn more about RPB grants: bit.ly/RPBgrant #Ophthalmology #Research

As we prepare to celebrate the 2025-2026 Scheie Staff Service Excellence Awardees, please join us in celebrating the 2024-2025 awardees! Additionally, congratulations to all of the incredible staff members celebrating career milestones and anniversaries! #staffappreciation

The Department of Ophthalmology and the Scheie Eye Institute are charting an exciting course of growth, as evidenced by its expanding geographic footprint spanning multiple new locations across both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. #Ophthalmology #Expansion #ScheieEyeInstitute

The Scheie Eye Institute's Tomas Aleman, MD, has been featured on Good Morning America. Dr. Aleman explains how gene therapy is providing hope for recovering vision in people with conditions like leber congenital amaurosis 5 here: goodmorningamerica.com/video/127055565. #genetherapy #scheieeye

Please join the Department of Ophthalmology and the Scheie Eye Institute in honoring our extraordinary faculty retirees in Fiscal Year 2025: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD; Charles W. Nichols, PhD; and Juan E. Grunwald, MD. #ophthalmology #visionscience #pioneers #upenn #pennmedicine

Please join the Department of Ophthalmology and the Scheie Eye Institute in congratulating our FY2025 faculty promotions, new endowed chairs, and highlighted faculty accolades! #community #ophthalmology #promotions #endowedchair #fiscalyear2025 #upenn #scheieeye

Please join the Department of Ophthalmology and the Scheie Eye Institute in celebrating the incredible faculty members who joined our community in Fiscal Year 2025! #ophthalmology #scheieeye #visionscience #faculty #clinicians #ophthalmologists #upenn #pennmedicine #community

At @ScheieEye's Thyroid Eye Disease clinic, collaborative, comprehensive care is the gold standard. Discover how ophthalmologists Drs. Madhura Tamhankar and César Briceño are transforming the landscape of complex eye care: bit.ly/4838CzN #Ophthalmology #EyeCare

Congratulations to @lucieguojam (@ScheieEye), recipient of the NIH Director's Early Independence Award! Learn more about Dr. Guo & her research interests here➡️ tinyurl.com/3nhay5kp #NIHHighRisk @NIH_CommonFund

Today at AAO 2025, join us at 8am (Room W311E) for the @ARVOinfo/@aao_ophth Symposium: Therapeutic Approaches to Vision Restoration. And don't miss YO ARVO! at 1pm (YO Lounge, Room W208B) for Exploring Careers in Research. #ARVOMIT #ophthalmology #VisionResearch

Scheie’s educational programs prepare residents to be leaders in quality & safety after their training. Lama Al-Aswad, MD, MPH—a faculty founder of Scheie’s Resident Quality Improvement Program—emphasizes that quality shapes the very “culture” of our clinician community. #scheie

The Resident Research Committee—a new structured research program by Qi Cui, MD, PhD @CuiLab—aims to help residents sharpen their research acumen through multi-faculty mentorship in project development. #Ophthalmology #Residency #Research #Mentorship #Education #PennMedicine