20 / 20 Blog Archive
May 1 2020 | Posted In: 20/20 Blog
Palo Alto, CA — Mahajan’s surgical team was among the first to perform eye surgery in one of the state-of-the-art operating rooms in Stanford’s new hospital. The 824,000-square-foot hospital was designed as a modern center where prevention, treatment, and cutting-edge therapies play equal roles...
Apr 29 2020 | Posted In: 20/20 Blog
Palo Alto, CA — Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can happen when someone is close to an explosion that sends out powerful shock waves through the air. If someone is in the proximity of an exploding munition, like a land mine, they may not have any visible injuries, but internal, life altering...
Apr 20 2020 | Posted In: 20/20 Blog
Palo Alto, CA — Is there something to feed retinal cells that can give them the energy to withstand gene mutations that make them sick? This is a question that Vinit Mahajan M.D., Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University, and his colleagues have been asking in the hope of finding...
Mar 31 2020 | Posted In: 20/20 Blog
Palo Alto, CA — On an international Zoom conference, Gabriel Velez, an M.D., Ph.D. student in the Mahajan Lab, successfully presented his Ph.D. thesis defense seminar.
In an hour-long oral presentation titled, “Structural and Proteomic Insights into the Pathogenesis of Intraocular Inflammation,”...
Mar 3 2020 | Posted In: 20/20 Blog
Dylan Parsons, a postdoctoral fellow in the Mahajan Lab, was one of three candidates selected to receive an award from the Stanford T32 Vision Training Grant. The grant provides one year of funding for intensive bench to bedside translational research aimed at bringing new therapies to patients....
