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Tyler McKinney with his family today.

Ex-Creighton basketball star grateful for his vision

Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Tyler McKinney was a junior and the starting point guard for Creighton University’s men’s basketball team in late 2003 when he was sidelined with an eye infection called acanthamoeba keratitis. McKinney isn’t sure how he contracted the infection in his right eye, but his best guess is that it happened when he was in Canada during a preseason basketball trip.

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George Carsner reminisces about his time working on the EyeNet Ham Radio Network.

Former EyeNet Ham Radio Operator Reminisces About His Work

Thursday, April 3, 2025
In 1962, Ted Hunter and Alson E. Braley created the Eye Bank Network, utilizing ham radio operators to coordinate the exchange of donor eye tissue between eye banks in the United States. The two recruited George Carsner to participate.
Bob Rush

"I've never doubted the skillset of these guys"

Thursday, March 13, 2025
Retired Attorney Bob Rush's association with Iowa Lions Eye Bank stretches back to 1969, when he was a law student at the University of Iowa.
Simran Sarin banner downtown Iowa City

Cornea researcher featured in University of Iowa campaign

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Among those featured in the 2025 Dare to Discover campaign, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President of Research, is Simran Sarin, a student in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, whose research examines cornea transplant outcomes.