Yuhua Zhang, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at Doheny Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, will lead the development of the next generation of advanced retinal imaging technology to study cerebral small vessel disease with a multidisciplinary team of scientists

PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Doheny Eye Institute, one of the nation’s leading vision research institutions, announced that Yuhua Zhang, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at Doheny Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, is among an esteemed multidisciplinary group of scientists to receive a major award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund Venture Program Oculomics Initiative. The $4.7M a year award will be distributed annually for three years among the scientists collaborating to develop a noninvasive ocular imaging approach that can detect and characterize cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), a common central nervous system disorder that causes failures of blood flow and contributes to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia.