CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Calvin Roberts, MD, program manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, discusses two “moonshot” ophthalmology programs from the organization.
The first is the Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (THEA) program, which aims to restore vision through whole eye transplantation. The second is the Ocular Laboratory for Analysis of Biomarkers (OCULAB) program, which launched during the meeting with the goal of developing a tear-based biomarker measurement system.
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