Vanderbilt: VISE Affiliates Awarded $2.3M NIH Grant to Combat Childhood Blindness
August 01, 2023
August 01, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 1 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants.
One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). "Clinical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and track its progression cause . . .
A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants.
One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). "Clinical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and track its progression cause . . .