Michael Beyeler receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Professor Beyeler receives a $1.5 million NIH Director’s New Innovator award to enable an AI powered visual prosthesis.
October 4, 2022
“Success of this project would translate to a new potential treatment option for incurable blindness, which affects nearly 40 million people worldwide,” said Beyeler, who plans to make all of his group’s software, tools and deidentified data available to the scientific community. “Overall, this will be a fantastic opportunity for my lab to contribute substantially in the field of sight restoration and make a difference in the world.”
Read the full press release in The Current
