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Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

Krzysztof Palczewski

The science of sight

Researcher Krzysztof Palczewski leads UC Irvine’s bold pursuit to cure blindness

September 18, 2025
James and Cynthia DeBoard standing in laboratory.

$15 million gift to name, support UC Irvine's Center for Translational Vision Research

Donation honors memory of entrepreneur, philanthropist Robert M. Brunson

September 03, 2025
Baruch D. Kupperman, director of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

A decade of visionary achievement

UCI’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary

October 13, 2023

National Academy of Sciences names two UCI faculty members as fellows

Mathematician Svetlana Jitomirskaya, vision researcher Krzysztof Palczewski honored

May 04, 2022
Krzysztof “Kris” Palczewski

Vision visionary

UCI’s acclaimed Donald Bren Professor of Ophthalmology, Kris Palczewski, is blazing a trail of innovative research

April 11, 2022
Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD, the Irving H. Leopold chair and a distinguished professor in the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology at the UCI School of Medicine

UCI-led study reveals significant restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy

New generation CRISPR technology lays foundation for therapeutics to treat a wide range of inherited ocular diseases

October 20, 2020