UAB School of Optometry Vision Science Graduate Program

The UAB School of Optometry has been ranked third in the country for vision research funding to schools and colleges of optometry. The 2016 direct costs awarded to UABSO totaled $3.35 million.

News - UAB School of Optometry ranks among top three The School of Optometry ranked third nationally in research funding and second nationally in basic biomedical research funding. Michael Twa, O.D., Ph....

Michael Twa, O.D., Ph.D., associate dean for research and graduate studies at the UAB School of Optometry, brought the topic of precision medicine to the 2017 American Academy of Optometry meeting, which was held this week in Chicago. Precision medicine is the approach to disease treatment and prevention that takes into account an individual's genetics and environmental risk factors: http://bit.ly/2yer8nX

Jessica Jasien, Shyam Panthi, Christopher Starr and Daniel Turner, all students with the School's Vision Science Graduate Program, received grants to support their travel to the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology so they can present their research findings. Grants are awarded to investigators whose findings are of high interest to the vision and ophthalmology research community: http://ow.ly/qgBD30aRPaz

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Study first to show role of Parkin gene in eye lens free radical formation, cell survival - Scienmag Credit: Florida Atlantic University Although mutations in the PARK2 gene that encodes the Parkin protein are associated with developing early-onset Parkinson's disease (PD), much remains to be..