April 2017

Dr. Preeti Verghese Awarded NEI Grant

Congratulations to Senior Scientist, Preeti Verghese, Ph.D.,  who was awarded a four-year grant from the National Eye Institute to study ways of assisting patients with age-related macular disease (AMD) in the performance of real-world tasks. Dr. Verghese’s research lab examines the neural processes, strategies, and adaptations that humans use to interact with objects in the real world and apply these to visual adaptations in clinical populations.