2023 Annual report

RESEARCH

PhD Students Take Top Honors with National Awards Seoyoung Kang, MMSc, was awarded the Minnie and Roseanna Turner Award for Impaired Vision Research in June for her project on “Retinal Regeneration and Glia Reprogramming.” Daniel Larbi, OD, was awarded the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience

$2.04 Million NIH Grant Awarded

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Dr. Alexandra Benavente Pérez was awarded an NIH grant through the National Eye Institute to study the link between myopia and glaucoma.

(SfN) for his work in “Understanding Müller Glia Function in Retinal Disease.”

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New Home for the Clinical Vision Research Center on the 14th Floor The September 26th ribbon cutting marked a celebratory year for the CVRC, which also launched its 100th study led by Dr. Arathy Kartha and its tenth anniversary. In the past year, the CVRC secured ~$1.8M to support research and clinical studies.

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