US military veteran Aaron James has received the world's first eye transplant after suffering a devastating accident back in 2021.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant on Aaron James, a military veteran who suffered a severe electrical accident. Despite successful attachment and blood flow, ...

9, 2023 11:27 a.m. | Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 11:27 a.m. NEW YORK — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant ...

The recipient of the world’s first whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing “incredibly” well more than a year after ...

A US military veteran who received the world's first whole-eye transplant has made significant progress a year later and has been able to resume his normal life, researchers say. Aaron James ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (UPI) --A patient who underwent the world's first whole-eye and partial-face transplant has healed astonishingly well more than a year after the 21-hour surgery, a new report says.

This meant attempting an eye transplant would be worthwhile even if it conferred only cosmetic value. "I can smell again, I can eat again, taste food. For the first time in a year and a half ...

director of research and associate professor in the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery NYU Langone successfully performed the world's first whole-eye and partial-face transplant in 2023 ...

UTSW is part of a nationwide ARPA-H initiative to restore vision with a whole eye transplant.

He decided, based on some recent advances, that a working eye transplant might be possible. These include the first successful eye and face transplant in New York; another was researchers at the ...