Publications

Our faculty produce more than 200 peer-reviewed publications per year across all ophthalmic subspecialties. The list below covers 70 papers e-published between June and September 2026. Research areas represented include cornea/ocular surface, retinal disease, glaucoma, ocular oncology, neuro-ophthalmology, pediatric ophthalmology, imaging, and bioengineering.

To explore our sponsored research portfolio and active grant-funded projects, visit the Sponsored Research page.

Faculty Publications:

1. Melinda Chang, MD and Mark Borchert, MD co-authored the paper, “Validity and Reliability of the CVI Range for Clinical Research: Baseline and One-Year Results” in Ophthalmology Science.
2. Liane Dallalzadeh, MD co-authored the paper, “Pediatric Sutureless Conjunctiva-Sparing Versus Traditional Müllerectomy: A Comparative Study” in Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.
3. Qifa Zhou, PhD co-authored the paper, “A wearable non-invasive sonogenetic pacemaker” in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
4. Mark Borchert, MD, Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD, and Melinda Chang, MD co-authored the paper, “COG5-congenital disorder of glycosylation diagnosed by whole genome sequencing in siblings with unexplained optic atrophy, macular atrophy, and developmental delay: case report” in Frontiers in Neurology.
5. Qifa Zhou, PhD co-authored the paper, “Ultrasound priming gated by solid tumor hallmarks to guide CAR-T therapy” in Science Advances.
6. Hossein Ameri, MD, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Ultra-Widefield Fluorescein Angiography Findings in Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa” in Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases.
7. Brian Toy, MD co-authored the paper, “Racial and microvascular determinants of progression to treatment-warranted diabetic eye disease” in Eye (London).
8. Qifa Zhou, PhD and Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Agreement of Anterior Segment Biometrics Measured Using Image-Registered Swept-Source OCT and High-Frequency Ultrasound Biomicroscopy” in Journal of Glaucoma.
9. Qifa Zhou, PhD co-authored the paper, “Ultrasound phase microscopy for rapid label-free super-resolution vascular imaging” in Research Square.
10. Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “ProptoView: AI-based digital exophthalmometry using multi-view facial images in a multinational validation study” in Journal of Translational Medicine.
11. Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Centering the marginalized: AI-driven strategies for advancing health equity in rare disease care” in Patterns.
12. Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Incidence patterns and genetic validation of primary glaucoma subtypes among 1 million adults in China and the UK” in British Journal of Ophthalmology.
13. Brian Toy, MD co-authored the paper, “A Case of Refractory Idiopathic Retinitis, Vasculitis, Aneurysms, and Neuroretinitis Responsive to Infliximab and Mycophenolate Mofetil” in Retinal Cases & Brief Reports.
14. Mark Humayun, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Value of Treatment for Combat Ocular Trauma” in Military Medicine.
15. Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Interim Results from a Multicenter Observational Safety Study of Patients Treated with Voretigene Neparvovec-Rzyl in the United States” in Ophthalmology.
16. Qifa Zhou, PhD and Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Quantitative Ciliary Body Imaging Using Image-Registered Swept-Source AS-OCT and Ultrasound Biomicroscopy” in Translational Vision Science & Technology.
17. Gianluca Lazzi, PhD co-authored the paper, “A spatially discretized convolutional neural mass model for studying meso-scale spatio-temporal transformations in the rat hippocampus” in Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
18. Melinda Chang, MD co-authored the paper, “Anti-VEGF versus Laser Photocoagulation Surgery for Primary Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: A Report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology” in Ophthalmology.
19. Qifa Zhou, PhD co-authored the paper, “Identifying and reprogramming softness-driven cancer stem-like cells overcomes CAR-T cell resistance in solid tumours” in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
20. Qifa Zhou, PhD co-authored the paper, “Sono-Mechanogenetics: Linking Ultrasound Physics With Cellular Mechanobiology” in Advanced Science.
21. Xuejuan Jiang, PhD and Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Ocular Biometric Determinants of Intraocular Pressure and Risk Factors for Ocular Hypertension: The Chinese American Eye Study” in Journal of Glaucoma.
22. Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Clinical features, retinal detachment (RD) rates, and RD prophylaxis in patients with genetically confirmed Knobloch Syndrome, a U.S.-based multi-center study” in Ophthalmology Retina.
23. Jesse Berry, MD co-authored the paper, “Development of Poliosis in Patients Treated With Immunotherapy for Metastatic Cutaneous and Non-Cutaneous Melanoma” in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research.
24. Brian Song, MD, J. Martin Heur, MD, PhD, Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, and Qifa Zhou, PhD co-authored the paper, “Four-Dimensional Sequential Elastography for Ocular Tissue Using 2D Matrix Array” in BME Frontiers.
25. Xuejuan Jiang, PhD co-authored the paper, “Effect of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Image Artifacts on Quantitation of Vessel Density and Perfusion” in Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina.
26. Mahnaz Shahidi, PhD co-authored the paper, “Racial Variations in Retinal Oxygen Metabolic Biomarkers in Diabetic Retinopathy: A Pilot Study” in Journal of Ophthalmology.
27. Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Self-Constructed Macular Buckle for Myopic Macular Hole-Associated Retinal Detachment” in American Journal of Ophthalmology.
28. Kyle Bolo, MD and Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD co-authored the paper, “Risk-Stratified Monitoring of Open Angle Glaucoma Suspects Based on Diagnostic Conversion Risk” in American Journal of Ophthalmology.
29. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Multilaboratory, Blinded, Randomized Trial of Five Cerebroprotectants in Ischemic Stroke” in Circulation Research.
30. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Structural Brain Correlates of Bulimia Nervosa Diagnosis and Symptom Severity: A Coordinated ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group Analysis” in JAMA Psychiatry.
31. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Prediction of cognitive performance by demographics, sleep, and brain morphometry: machine learning findings from ENIGMA-Sleep Working Group” in Research Square.
32. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Brain Aging in Specific Phobia: An ENIGMA-Anxiety Mega-Analysis” in Human Brain Mapping.
33. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Amyloid PET Quantitation and Centiloid Thresholds in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis” in JAMA.
34. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Brain-heart-eye axis revealed by multi-organ imaging genetics and proteomics” in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
35. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Regional, functional and transcriptomic decoding of multidimensional brain structure alterations in obsessive-compulsive disorder” in Nature Communications.
36. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Multi-modal deep learning and explainable AI for predicting multiple dementia-related neuropathologies from brain MRI, clinical, and genetic data” in Frontiers in Neurology.
37. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Dynamic and Static Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Canonical Networks in Military and Civilian Populations With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and/or Mild Traumatic Brain Injury” in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
38. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Variations of global brain asymmetry are associated with aging and related diseases” in Science Advances.
39. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Resting-state functional connectivity in HIV — Findings from the ENIGMA HIV working group” in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
40. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Distribution and age-interactions of cortical thickness associated with specific classes of medication used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from the international ENIGMA consortium” in Cortex.
41. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Disease detection and classification in temporal lobe epilepsy: step-wise versus simultaneous AI decision models in a multisite neuroimaging study” in Brain Communications.
42. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Deep neural networks and genome-wide associations reveal the polygenic architecture of local brain aging” in GeroScience.
43. Arthur Toga, PhD and Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Genetic architecture of the limbic white matter microstructure in aging and Alzheimer’s Disease” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
44. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Depression and hippocampal subfield volume in older adults” in Translational Psychiatry.
45. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “A robust and reproducible automated MRI pipeline for quantifying tissue outcomes after experimental stroke in multi-center preclinical networks” in Imaging Neuroscience.
46. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Shared and specific associations of amygdala nuclei volumes with PTSD symptom domains and childhood trauma: An ENIGMA-PGC PTSD mega-analysis” in Molecular Psychiatry.
47. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Air pollution is linked to divergent cortical thickness patterns in brain regions vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease” in Neurotoxicology.
48. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Decomposing neuroanatomical heterogeneity in depression: insights from an ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group study in 5146 individuals” in Translational Psychiatry.
49. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Sex-specific biological aging clocks across organs and omics” in Nature Medicine.
50. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Shared and Distinct Alterations in Brain Structure of Youth With Internalizing or Externalizing Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA Antisocial Behavior, ADHD, Major Depressive Disorder, and Anxiety Working Groups” in Biological Psychiatry.
51. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Volumetric Differences of Thalamic Nuclei Are Associated With Posttrauma Psychopathology” in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
52. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Relationships of CSF biomarkers to cortical atrophy in early-onset Alzheimer’s disease” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
53. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Brain Morphology Mediators of the Association of Childhood Trauma With Bipolar Disorder: An International ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group Study” in JAMA Psychiatry.
54. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Clinical-biological Alzheimer’s disease stage concordance: insights from cohorts and autopsy data” in Brain.
55. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Diabetes and neurodegeneration in cognitively unimpaired older adults: implications for cognition” in Brain.
56. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Contributions of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative to advancing AD research: a targeted review of recent publications” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
57. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Global network and local vulnerabilities underlie brain atrophy across Parkinson’s disease stages” in Brain.
58. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Cross-subject decoding of internal mental states using predictive time-series modeling” in Science Bulletin.
59. Arthur Toga, PhD co-authored the paper, “Association of cognitive impairment and APOE ε4 with Centiloids in Hispanic and non-Hispanic White cohorts” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
60. Paul Thompson, PhD co-authored the paper, “Interpretable multimodal learning for integrating neuroimaging and genetic data in Alzheimer’s disease” in Frontiers in Radiology.

Affiliated Faculty Publications:

1. John Ringman, MD, MS co-authored the paper, “Safety considerations of gene-based therapies for Alzheimer’s disease” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
2. Cheng-Ming Chuong, PhD co-authored the paper, “Roles of Msx2 in exogen control: modulating the stem cell niche during the transition from hair shedding to regeneration” in Journal of Advanced Research.
3. Cheng-Ming Chuong, PhD co-authored the paper, “Derivation of embryonic stem cells across avian species” in Nature Biotechnology.
4. Stan G. Louie, PhD co-authored the paper, “Proximal tubule ACE2 mediates early responses to hypertension by regulating intrarenal RAS and sodium homeostasis” in JCI Insight.
5. Danny JJ Wang, PhD co-authored the paper, “Assessing molecular, cellular and transcriptomic bases of laminar perfusion and cytoarchitecture coupling in the human cortex” in Nature Communications.
6. Yonggang Shi, PhD co-authored the paper, “Diffusion-based generative fiber orientation restoration from severe signal loss in diffusion-weighted MRI” in Medical Image Analysis.
7. Roberta McKean-Cowdin, PhD co-authored the paper, “Prevalence and Demographic Characteristics of Cataract Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review” in Public Health Reports.
8. John Ringman, MD, MS co-authored the paper, “Development and validation of a harmonized memory score for multicenter Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia research” in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy.
9. Danny JJ Wang, PhD co-authored the paper, “Lifespan trajectories of the brain’s functional complexity characterized by multiscale sample entropy” in NeuroImage.
10. Stan G. Louie, PhD co-authored the paper, “Brain pro-resolving-to-pro-inflammatory lipids and cPLA(2) activation associations with late-life cognitive trajectories” in eBioMedicine.