The investigators, calling themselves the Visual Science Research Group, not only received the core grant. Awarded last July, the grant supports faculty currently engaged in vision and visually-related research, fosters recruitment of additional faculty in the vision sciences, and helps to increase collaboration among visual scientists at UC Davis. Leo M. Chalupa , professor of ophthalmology and chair of the Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior Section of the Division of Biological Sciences, is primary investigator and coordinator of the grant. Glaucoma is a thief of periphreal vision. Macular degeneration steals central vision .
Cataracts blur or dim vision.
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