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The National Eye Institute Puts its Focus on Glaucoma
The National Eye Institute (NEI) is marking its 40th anniversary with a series of symposia that gather outstanding scientists who are contributing to the advancement of vision science at the bench and in the clinic.
This symposium is entirely dedicated to glaucoma, a severe eye disease that affects 2.2 million Americans and is the leading cause of blindness in African Americans.
The symposium “Focus on Glaucoma” is open to the wide scientific community interested in glaucoma and nerve degeneration/ regeneration, within and outside the NIH. The talks will cover research on: control of axon growth by retinal ganglion cells and the mechanisms of neurodegeneration; genetics defects that predispose to inherited glaucoma and computational methods supporting this research; - translational medicine for glaucoma and clinical trials.
More information is available on the NEI website.