Beckman Foundation Names Mark Bear, Ph.D., of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as 2018 Beckman-Argyros Vision Research Award Winner
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation today announced its 2018 Beckman-Argyros Vision Research Award winner is Dr. Mark Bear, Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation today announced its 2018 Beckman-Argyros Vision Research Award winner is Dr. Mark Bear, Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Bear and MIT will receive $100,000 and $400,000, respectively, to further advance his research harnessing synaptic plasticity to promote recovery from amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye."
- Through this research, they uncovered the synaptic basis of amblyopia, a severe visual impairment caused by poor quality vision during infancy and early childhood.
- Instead, their findings indicate that vision loss is actively triggered by neural activity originating in the affected eye.