NEI grants $1 million to re-create ocular stem cells

The National Eye Institute has granted researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai a 5-year $1 million grant supporting discovery of new stem cell therapies for ocular surface disease, according to a Mount Sinai press release. The grant will support the investigation of viable stem cell sources, the re-creation of ocular stem cells from eyelid or oral skin cells, molecular pathways of ocular and orbital development and biomaterials to restore vision, according to the press release.