Faculty members in the Indiana University School of Medicine's department of ophthalmology at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute and the Krannert Institute of Cardiology have received grants for vision research initiatives, according to a news release.
The $33,500 in grants will support a number of areas, including a biobank database, treatment for age-related macular degeneration and continuing research into diabetic retinopathy.
The researchers who received grants are as follows:
- Shekhar Gangaraju, PhD, assistant professor in the department of ophthalmology, department of cellular and integrative physiology and the Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
- Keith March, MD, PhD, director of the Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine and professor of medicine, physiology and biomedical engineering at the Indiana University School of Medicine
- Yang Sun, MD, PhD, a physician researcher at the Glick Eye institute
- Tim Corson, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and of biochemistry and molecular biology in the department of ophthalmology
Grants came from Cryptic Masons Medical Research Foundation, Knights Templar Foundation of Wisconsin, American Glaucoma Society (funded by Allergan) and the Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation.
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