The National Institutes of Health awarded the Ohio State University College of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in Columbus a $2.85 million five-year research grant.
Ohio State plans to usethe grant to support three key initiatives, including getting state-of-the-art equipment, analyzing larger volumes of data and providing services and consultations for eye disease diagnosis.
The NIH also awarded $7.3 million to Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University earlier in the week.