AUGUSTA, Ga. (WFXG) 鈥� The Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc. presented a $90,000 research grant to Dr. Yusra Zaidi of 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 Vascular Biology Center during a ceremony held Wednesday morning. The presentation took place at 11 a.m. near the university鈥檚 research facilities, highlighting the ongoing efforts to combat childhood vision loss and support groundbreaking science in Georgia. The grant supports Dr. Zaidi鈥檚 proposal titled 鈥淓xogenous Apolipoprotein A1 Mitigates Inflammation and Pathological Neovascularization in the Model of Retinopathy of Prematurity,鈥� which focuses on preventing infant blindness through innovative molecular approaches.
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2025
2024
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Conference, held May 5, 2024
Yusra Zaidi, PhD, received the ARVO Foundation Travel Grant for the highest-scored abstract at the, in Seattle, for the project title 鈥淟oss of Neurofibromin facilitates pathological retinal neovascularization (RNV) via Akt-2 facilitated GLUT-1 translocation鈥�
3rd Annual Savannah River Eye Meeting held March 13, 2024
Yusra Zaidi, PhD, received the Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Award for project title 鈥淟oss of Neurofibromin
facilitates pathological retinal neovascularization (RNV) via Akt-2 facilitated GLUT-1
translocation鈥�
38thAnnual Graduate Research Dayevents held March 7 & 8, 2024
Yusra Zaidi, PhD. received the Postdoctoral Fellow Oral Presentation Award for project title "Loss
of Neurofibromin facilitates pathological retinal neovascularization (RNV) via Akt-2
facilitated GLUT-1 translocation鈥�
2021
Congratulations! Dr. Tritz.
Rebekah Tritz successfully defends her Thesis 鈥淟everaging the Bioenergetic Profile in Neurofibromatosis Type 1鈥�
