Prof. Xiaorong Liu recently was awarded the 2023 Shaffer Research Grant from the Glaucoma Research Foundation
Shaffer Grants provide seed funds to bold investigators whose creative projects explore promising leads and show strong potential for impact on glaucoma. Dr. Liu proposed to establish an in vivo biomarker to monitor glaucoma progression in mice.
Prof Liu also received the 4-VA at UVA Collaborative Research Grant. She will collaborate with Dr. Arina Korneva in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at the Virginia Tech on a proposed project investigating axonal transport defects in glaucoma.