Distinguished Emeritus Professor Venkat Reddy Studies the Lens of the Eye

Distinguished Emeritus Professor Venkat Reddy and collaborators from SUNY Stony Brook recently published an article describing important properties of the lens of the eye (The Effects of GPX-1 Knockout on Membrane Transport and Intracellular Homeostasis in the Lens, Journal of Membrane Biology, Volume 227, Pages 25-37, 2009). Reddy and his long-time collaborator V. Everett Kinsey founded Oakland University's Eye Research Institute in 1968. Over the next 40 years the Eye Research Institute has received more than $50 million from the National Eye Institute to support vision research. Prof. Frank Giblin, the institutes current director, writes "Our goal is to conduct state-of-the-art research in visual sciences to enhance the understanding of fundamental processes in ocular tissues. Our research laboratories provide an environment for the training of advanced undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in pursuing careers in the visual sciences, or the medical sciences in general."