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Throughout the month, the University of Kentucky Global Ophthalmology (UK GO) team is raising awareness for the condition that affects many Kentuckians with diabetes.

"When I came to the U.S. and was confronted with the health care system here, I wasn’t comfortable practicing medicine without doing something to serve people who don’t have proper access to care because they’re uninsured or far from services."

Oliver Voecking, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Kentucky Department of Biology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, recently received a Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career-Starter Grant for his retinal research with zebrafish.

Associate Professor Ann Morris in the Department of Biology will use the National Institutes of Health funding to continue her cutting-edge research in retinal development and regeneration.

Jakub Famulski, UK College of Arts and Sciences, has received an R01 grant for over $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the early formation of the anterior segment of the eye, which includes the cornea, iris, ciliary muscle, drainage canals and pupil.