HTTP:: Building a Better Eye
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Around the world, the incidence of eye diseases is constantly increasing, either due to environmental factors, or because more and more people turn to unhealthy lifestyles, and then later pay the price. In order to curb the rates at which human eyes deteriorate, Canadian experts have set up a new university/industry research network, which aims to develop new medical devices, biomaterials and drug-delivery systems against a number of conditions affecting both the eyes and the optical nerves. Speaking on September 24th at the McMaster University in Hamilton, Federal Minister of State (Science and Technology) Gary Goodyear announced that the new 20/20: NSERC Ophthalmic Materials Network (20/20 Network) had been awarded a $5-million research grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Additional money, the official said, were coming in from the industry partners, as well as from the Ontario Centers of Excellence.“Providing Canadians wi!
th a lifetime of perfect vision is the ultimate goal of the network. It is rather ambitious but by combining different areas of expertise there is a lot of potential for drastically improving treatment of vision loss,†McMaster University Professor of Chemical Engineering Heather Sheardown, who is also the scientific dir...
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