February 6, 2013

NEI: Interview with T. Michael Redmond, Ph.D.

National Eye Institute (NEI) Scientist Dr. Redmond talks about the combination of luck and persistence that drives the scientific process and ultimately leads to medical advances. He describes a hand-me-down project from another NEI group that led his team to discover a crucial protein involved in vision, which served as the basis of groundbreaking gene therapy trial for a blinding eye conditions.