Dr. Alfredo Dubra of the Medical College of Wisconsin to Use Adaptive Optics to Study Eye Disease

Alfredo Dubra, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and biophysics, and the Medical College of Wisconsin received a $250,000, four-year grant from Research to Prevent Blindness to study diseases impacting the retina and the optic nerve, according to a university news release.

Dr. Dubra will lead the research and use adaptive optics to take high resolution images of living eyes. The visualization of individual cells will provide insight into diseases such as glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

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