Professor Fleiszig Awarded Allergan Grant for COVID-19 Research Project
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Professor Fleiszig Awarded Allergan Grant for COVID-19 Research Project
Berkeley Optometry’s Dr. Suzanne Fleiszig is the recipient of the Allergan Foundation Grant in the area of the anterior segment. As the principal investigator, Dr. Fleiszig has been awarded the grant for her project, “Relationship between COVID-19 and the Eye.” Her collaborative team of co-investigators include Eva Harris, PhD; University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and Abby Kroken, PhD; University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry.
In other COVID-19 related work, Dr. Fleiszig, who is also chair-elect of the Council on Microbial Sciences for the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), one of the world’s largest and oldest scientific societies, co-organized an historic summit of leading experts earlier this year to discuss ways that scientists can work together to leverage existing resources and remove obstacles to develop both testing and vaccines to stop the coronavirus pandemic that is currently gripping the planet.
