Wake Forest Eye Center Granted $50k From NC Eye Bank for Cornea Research, Fellowship

The N.C. Eye Bank has given $50,000 to Wake Forest Eye Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Salem, N.C., to go toward cornea research and the center’s cornea fellowship, according to a Journal Now report.

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Approximately $20,000 of the grant money will support the fellowship and $30,000 will fund research to the state’s busiest multispecialty ophthalmology clinic where more than 120,000 patient visits take place annually.

The N.C. Eye Bank provides 3,000 corneas for transplant each year.

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