NEW YORK—SUNY College of Optometry has announced that a team of its faculty researchers led by Xiaoying Zhu, OD, Ph.D., MD, MS, FAAO, has been awarded a $500,000 Myopia Research Grant from the American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF) and Meta Reality Labs Research, a specialized research division of Meta Platforms, Inc. that works with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). The grant will fund the study of how children’s everyday visual experiences may contribute to the development and progression of myopia, according to the announcement.
