Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences’ Jonathan Lass joins a team studying the success of transplants of corneal tissue donated from diabetic individuals after death | CWRU Newsroom

CWRU-led research team receives $6.4 million NIH grant

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Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Jonathan Lass, the Charles I Thomas Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, is part of a team of researchers awarded a $6.4 million federal grant to support a team of researchers studying the success of transplants of corneal tissue donated from diabetic individuals after death. He said the new research will determine which people with diabetes may have corneal tissue suitable for donation, and which wouldn’t be able to successfully donate for the procedure, known as keratoplasty.