Fatima Abbas, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Frans Vinberg, PhD, at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and lead author of the study. Abbas conducted experiments in the dark as she exposed donor eye tissue to different kinds of light and recorded photoreceptor responses.

Frans Vinberg, PhD, and Fatima Abbas, PhD, of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah in the Vinberg lab. The pair have published a study in Nature showing how they were able to revive light-sensing neuron cells in organ donor eyes and restore communication between them as part of a series of discoveries that stand to transform brain and vision research.