Associate Professor Thomas Corydon at the Department of Biomedicine receives DKK 350,000 from the Eye Foundation (Øjenfonden).
All funds in 2012 from the Eye Foundation (Øjenfonden) go to research projects that focus on the eye disease of "age-related macular degeneration" (AMD). Associate Professor Thomas Corydon from the Department of Biomedicine is among the donation recipients and receives DKK 350,000.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in Denmark. Monday 21 May 2012 Countess Alexandra donated on behalf of the Danish Society for the Blind and The Eye Foundation a total of 1 million DKK for the treatment of AMD.
The grant to Thomas Corydon of DKK 350.000 goes to a research project to establish a new method for treatment of neovascularisation and wet AMD.
Press release (in Danish).
List of grant recipients 2012 (in Danish).