Retinopathy Of Prematurity

  • VISE affiliates awarded $2.3M NIH grant to combat childhood blindness

    VISE affiliates awarded $2.3M NIH grant to combat childhood blindness

    A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants. One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). “Clinical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and... Read More

    Jul 31, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Penn seeks new look at eye disorder

    John Penn, Ph.D., vice chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Vanderbilt, is seeking to change the way retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), the leading cause of childhood blindness worldwide, is treated. Read More

    Mar 7, 2013