Summer Research Fellowship Funded by Saving Sight At the beginning of July, Saving Sight and New York-based nonprofit Fight for Sight announced the award of a $2,500 research fellowship to Boston University School of Medicine student, Min Tae Kim. In his research, Kim will study type 2 diabetes and the role of a channel protein, Pannexin-1, in both normal wound repair and that of diabetic tissue. “Receiving this grant from Saving Sight eye bank and Fight for Sight is very significant for me, in part because of the award, but mainly because it feels like I have been accepted into this community of people committed to bettering the world by helping those who aren’t able to perceive their external environment like we can. I have been very interested in vision research since my undergraduate years, and it really feels like I’ve come a long way since then,” said Kim about the award. “Saving Sight is proud to provide ongoing support to the ocular research community,” said Tony Bavuso, CEO at Saving Sight. “It’s exciting to contribute to the success of the next generation of ocular researchers in hopes of finding new treatments.”
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