IU professor receives $2.35 million grant

IU School of Optometry Professor William H. Swanson recently received a $2.35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The grant will help Swanson continue his research in one of the leading causes of blindness.

Swanson will lead a group that will study patients in optometry clinics in Bloomington, Indianapolis and New York City. The team will work to improve the testing and screening methods for the presence, progression and pattern of glaucoma damage. According to the National Eye Institute, this affects 70 million people worldwide.

“The potential public health benefit is substantial, given the large number of patients with glaucoma,” Swanson said in an IU press release.

Swanson has been at IU since 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in biophysics and theoretical biology from the University of Chicago.