Three Penn Medicine Gene Therapy Innovators Receive International Award for Pioneering Work to Treat Childhood Blindness
September 04, 2018
September 04, 2018
UNIVERSITY CITY, Pennsylvania, Sept. 4 -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release:
Three Penn Medicine ophthalmology innovators will receive the 2018 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award for their revolutionary work leading to the first successful gene therapy to cure an inherited cause of childhood blindness. The Penn recipients are Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, the F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology; Samuel G. Jacobson, MD, PhD, a pr . . .
Three Penn Medicine ophthalmology innovators will receive the 2018 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award for their revolutionary work leading to the first successful gene therapy to cure an inherited cause of childhood blindness. The Penn recipients are Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, the F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology; Samuel G. Jacobson, MD, PhD, a pr . . .