More than $6 million in strategic seed funding for Northwestern faculty to date, including projects in the latest round with McCormick Professors Shana O. Kelley, Ying Wu, Milan Mrksich, and Jonathan Rivnay, accelerates high-impact research toward commercialization.
Led by Professor Hao F. Zhang, the center will advance its work by developing cutting-edge tools to better understand and treat glaucoma, one of the world’s leading causes of permanent blindness.
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