The
Midwest Eye-Banks
has given Wayne State about $100,000 to fund pilot studies searching
for causes and cures of blinding eye conditions. The grants will help
researchers and students study the following:
- Schnyder Crystalline Corneal Dystrophy, a rare inherited corneal disease predominant in people of Finnish or Swedish descent
- Corneal epithelium, a complication from diabetes that slows the healing rate of wounds to the outermost surface of the eye
- Bacterial
keratitis, one of the most common and destructive of bacterial diseases
of the cornea, especially in extended-wear contact lens users
- Understanding, treating and preventing the progression of diabetes-related diseases of the eyes and kidneys
- Choroidal melanoma, a solid eye tumor arising from the pigmented cells of the choroid
- Diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that is the leading cause of blindness in young adults in the U.S.
- Apoptosis
and neuropeptides in the progression of P. aeruginosa keratitis,
understanding cell-death in corneas infected with P. aeruginosa
Source: Wayne State University
Writer: Jon Zemke
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