The funding from the National Eye Institute will allow UNE researcher Ian Meng, Ph.D., and his collaborators to map out the corneal nerves with the goal developing new, more effective treatments for corneal pain.
To better understand the physiological and emotional impacts of damage to the eye, Meng, along with collaborators at Tufts University School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will use $6.6 million from the National Eye Institute (NEI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to map out the corneal nerves with the goal developing new, more effective treatments for corneal pain.