Two years ago 19 faculty members from across the UC Davis campus banded together to apply for a National Eye Institute Core Grant. 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.
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