Jeremy Kay, PhD is the recipient of the prestigious Research to Prevent Blindness Stein Innovation Award. This award provides flexible funding to scientists actively engaged in high-risk / high-gain vision science research with the goal of understanding the visual system and the diseases that compromise its function. He will receive up to $300,000 over three years.
Kay's research focuses on the study of how neural circuits devoted to specific visual processing tasks arise during development of the retina, and the consequences for circuit function when development goes wrong.
Katy Liu, MD, PhD received the Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award. This award provides outstanding early-career vision scientists with significant support over 4 years, as a means to start and sustain an independent research program. Liu's research studies the role of the immune system in the outflow tract of the eye, intraocular pressure regulation, and glaucoma.
Duke University School of Medicine has been granted a prestigious Unrestricted Grant by Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) in the amount of $115,000 a year to support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology. This grant will support the development and expansion of our renowned vision research program.