All ophthalmology and visual sciences

UI Hospital

August 4, 2026

UI Health ophthalmology ranks among nation’s best in U.S. News report 

U.S. News listed the ophthalmology program at UI Health at No. 16 in the nation and the hospital’s cancer care at No. 5 in Illinois.

Eye chart

June 29, 2026

Cardiovascular disease risk tied to vision loss in Latino adults

The study found having more risk factors made visual impairment more likely.

Eye Dropper with liquid going into a capsule.

July 22, 2025

UIC’s new dry eye drug is the result of patient-centric innovation

Dr. Sandeep Jain’s UIC lab developed the drug, which will begin human studies this summer.

A man in a lab coat works with test tubes in a laboratory.

April 15, 2024

Inventor of the Year: Deepak Shukla, College of Medicine 

Can new drugs prevent blindness and other damage from herpesvirus infections?

December 17, 2020

Study in mice shows genes may be altered through drug repurposing

Research shows normal genes may be enhanced to make up for non-functional copy genes.