Wake Forest University School of Medicine receives $495,000 to study visual impairment in older adults

Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received $495,000 from the Doris Duke Foundation to provide mentored research funding and time protection to early career physician-scientists to help them advance clinically significant research. Dr. Atalie Thompson, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, was awarded the grant to look at the feasibility of low-cost screening to help detect visual impairment in older …
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