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Fighting Blindness with a Virus

November 02, 2026
Apolonia Gardner labeling slides for microscopy at a lab bench in her PhD thesis lab (laboratory of Dr. Constance Cepko)./Photo by Heer Joisher

Injecting the eye with a virus can treat age-related blindness—or kill the very cells that need healing. Virologist Apolonia Gardner, PhD ’26 investigates why this innovative treatment succeeds or fails.

Read the full article on the Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences site. 

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