Glaucoma Study Gets $8.9M Grant
The five-year grant will target the diagnosis and monitoring of glaucoma, a common, chronic degenerative eye disease that does not always present with initial symptoms and is often diagnosed in later stages when vision loss is irreversible.
“We hope to improve the diagnosis of glaucoma so people can know from a quick noninvasive imaging test whether they need to be treated or followed for glaucoma,” Huang said. “Contrary to common belief, measuring eye pressure is not an accurate way of knowing whether someone has glaucoma.”
The Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma study will seek to advance the technology of optical coherence tomography, which offers a much more precise image of the eye structures affected by glaucoma.
Huang is co-inventor of the optical technology, along with Keck School Dean Carmen A. Puliafito. They were part of a team that invented the technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1990s.
Huang hopes to build upon his knowledge of the technology to improve the speed so that a 3-D set of images can be taken in a fraction of a second. He and his team also will use optical technology to measure blood flow in the eye.
“We believe computer analysis of high-resolution, three-dimensional images of the optic nerve head and retina will be a much better way to follow glaucoma,” Huang said. “These new developments will not only help us management glaucoma better, but may also be useful in the management of retinal diseases, neurologic diseases and cardiovascular diseases, which all have manifestations in the eye.”
For more information on the study, visit http://www.AIGstudy.net
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The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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