Inas Aboobakar Recognized with The David L. Epstein Clinician-Scientist Research Awardat the American glaucoma Society Annual Meeting in February 2026.
March 13, 2026
This award from the Chandler Grant Glaucoma Society honors David L. Epstein, MD—one of the most influential leaders in glaucoma and will provide support for ongoing research examining how glaucoma polygenic risk scores interact with social vulnerability indices to identify individuals at greatest disease risk.
They identified a large structural variant associated with primary open-angle glaucoma risk: https://lnkd.in/e5bpvVCy