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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Interviews: Jason Gestwicki on potential eye drops for cataracts
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:34:33
	Publish Date:		2016-02-16 00:00:00
	Description:		UC San Francisco’s Jason Gestwicki describes his lab’s work developing eye drops to reverse cataracts. This would be a boon to the millions of people who go blind every year in developing countries because they can't afford (or have access to) the current, successful surgical treatment. Gestwicki’s work has won a UCSF ‘Catalyst Award’ and led to the launch of ViewPoint Therapeutics, an “incubator” program at the California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3). In this conversational and informative interview, Gestwicki walks us through the ‘Eureka!’ moments of the study, underscores the value of translational research at the university and discusses the many implications their finding may have on other diseases, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. EDITOR'S NOTE: Gestwicki joined the UCSF faculty in 2013. While he has continued his work on cataracts at UCSF, much of the work was undertaken in his lab at the University of Michigan (U-M). The former graduate student that Gestwicki mentions in this interview, Leah Makely, was a member of the U-M team and is now the chief scientific officer at ViewPoint Therapeutics. Music: "Rainbow Street" by Scott Holmes freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/
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