Young investigators at University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center have received grants from the Knights of Templar Eye Foundation to improve care of pediatric eye diseases.
Tapan Patel, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY-2 resident physician, earned a $65,000 grant to determine the utility of using a smartphone device to screen for retinopathy of prematurity. Lev Prasov, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY-3 resident physician, will spend his $65,000 grant to validate a new gene for nanophthalmos, a rare eye malformation in which children are born with abnormally small eyeballs.
