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Doctoral funding from KI strengthens research on lack of oxygen in the eye tissue

18 November 2022

Research group leader Helder André at St. Erik Eye Hospital and Karolinska Institutet has been awarded funds from KI's special grant for training a doctoral candidate. The funding enables the employment of a doctoral student for the project "The translational role of hypoxia in blinding neovascular diseases" for four years.

Doctoral funding from KI strengthens research group leader Helder André's project on lack of oxygen in the eye tissue

The grant is a total of SEK 1.4 million.

– In the spring 2023, we will hire a PhD student to study how oxygen deficiency affects retinal cells and contributes to vascular blinding diseases with the overall aim of developing new treatments for loss of vision, says research group leader Helder André.

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18 November 2022