Hafeez Dhalla, who is part of a Duke engineering team developing laser technology to combat diabetic retinopathy, is no stranger to the Duke University’s Harrington Engineering Quadrangle, nor to its reputation for innovation in the health care arena.
Assistant research professor of biomedical engineering at Duke Universit, Dhalla stayed at Duke after graduating as an undergrad to pursue his PhD while helping Joe Izatt, the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering, develop a surgical microscope with built-in optical coherence tomography (OCT) capabilities.
After several years working in industry, he returned to campus on a new mission leverage Duke’s capabilities and resources to develop low-cost scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (SLOs) to combat diabetic retinopathy, which is a major cause of adult blindness.
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IMAGE: David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of ophthalmology in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine. view more
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An ophthalmologist and researcher at Oregon Health & Science University Casey Eye Institute is being honored for co-inventing an eye imaging technology that is widely used to diagnose and guide treatment for people with the leading causes of blindness.
David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., will be awarded a Visionary Prize from the Sanford and Susan Greenberg Prize to End Blindness during a live-streamed ceremony on Dec. 14. Huang is among 13 scientists sharing $3 million in prizes for their scientific and medical contributions to ending blindness. National Geographic highlighted the award winners in a Dec. 3 story.