Xi Chen, MD, PhD, retina fellow at Duke Department of Ophthalmology won a competitive Fellowship Project Award from Bayer’s Global Ophthalmology Awards Program (GOAP) for her proposal on “Macular neurovascular patterning in preterm infants.” Dr. Chen will receive $50,000 in funding for her research project.
The Fellowship Project Award is a mentored award intended to facilitate the development of research and clinical expertise in the field of retinal ophthalmology. Dr. Chen will be working with Dr. Cynthia Toth and her research team to investigate the coordination of macular neural and vascular development in preterm infants.