Ashutosh Agarwal, associate professor of biomedical engineering, holds the eye-ECMO device that his lab created as part of the whole eye transplant project led by Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. The device was recently able to keep a human eye alive outside of the body for several hours. Photos: Joshua Prezant/University of Miami.
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University of Miami is paving the way for human eye transplants

By Janette Neuwahl Tannen, University of Miami It seemed like a simple idea. Design a device that will make it possible for a human eye to remain alive and functional…

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