The Australian developer of retinal software to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease has won his country’s prestigious Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research.
Associate Professor Tien Wong, from the Centre for Eye Research, received the A$50,000 award at this week’s Australian Society Medical Research annual dinner.
‘It is an ambitious goal,’ he said, ‘but our ultimate aim is to develop a web-based imaging system from which optometrists and ophthalmologists can upload images which will then be assessed for retinal markers of future cardiovascular disease.’
Professor Wong received a grant of £128,000 by Pfizer for his research (News, February 10), to develop specialised retinal software to analyse images of the eye and show predictors of cardiovascular disease including stroke, hypertension and heart failure.
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