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University of Maryland team wins National Eye Institute Retina Organoid Challenge
A team from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, won the National Eye Institute Retina Organoid Challenge with its proposal to create a living model of the human retina, according to an NEI press release.Led by Erin Lavik, ScD, the team proposed building a retina by screen-printing adult neural progenitor-derived retinal neurons in layers that mimic the structure of the human retina, the release said.