Karthik Shekhar, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, alongside consortium members selected by the Glaucoma Research Foundation launches the Neurodegeneration Initiative with a $2.4 million gift funding from the Melza M. and Frank Theodore Barr Foundation. The research initiatives aim to find similarities across multiple neurodegenerative diseases — such as glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease — in order to eventually prevent and identify therapies for them. The team hopes to bring their different research areas together to come up with novel ideas and policies or findings.
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