Inside Duke Medicine
Young receives Wasserman grant
posted September 4th, 2008
Terri Young, M.D., of the departments of ophthalmology and pediatrics, has been granted a $60,000 Research to Prevent Blindness Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award. Dr. Young, who came to Duke in 2005, has served as a clinician and researcher at the Duke Eye Center and is the inaugural director of the Ophthalmic Pediatric Genetics Research Center.
As a clinician, she treats children with eye disorders and children and adults with eye misalignment disorders. As a researcher, Dr. Young has been instrumental in bringing the field of genetics to help understand the causes of severe myopia, or nearsightedness, with of hopes of one day treating or preventing this common ailment.
While at Duke, she began a unique collaboration with researchers at the Singapore Eye Research Institute of the National University of Singapore to study the environmental and genetic origins of myopia. Read more about her work in the Duke Eye Center’s magazine, Vision, at http://www.dukeeye.org/newsroom/publications.html.