Congratulations to Dr. Cheng on receiving the Cataract Research Award from the National Foundation For Eye Research (NFER) at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting in Vancouver, Canada in May. The NFER is an organization dedicated to promoting to eye lens research and presents the international Cataract Research Award to lens researchers for their significant contributions to the field.
Dr. Cheng is pictured here (from left to right) with Dr. Peter Kador, president of the NFER, and her mentors, Dr. Velia M. Fowler and Dr. Xiaohua Gong. Dr. Fowler is currently the chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Delaware, and Dr. Gong is a professor in the School of Optometry at UC Berkeley.
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