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Research to Prevent Blindness

RPB helps create a $3.75 million endowed vision research chair at UAB

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Left to right: Dowd Ritter, former CEO of Regions Bank; Torrey DeKeyser, executive director, EyeSight Foundation of Alabama; Brian F. Hofland, PhD, RPB President; and Christopher A. Girkin, MD, chair of the UAB Department of Ophthalmology.

The endowment will enable the University of Alabama Birmingham department of ophthalmology to recruit a world-class scientist to join its existing roster of international experts in the study of blinding diseases such as macular degeneration and glaucoma.

Read the UAB press release.

September 10, 2014

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