Department of Health
Corneal disease is the third most common form of blindness. But for every 70 patients that need a transplant around the world, just one donor cornea is available.
The University of Sydney will receive $35 million to establish a manufacturing facility that will produce, store and ship artificial corneas nationally and overseas.
Funding is from the MRFF’s Frontier Health and Medical Research initiative, which supports researchers to pursue big ideas and develop new health and medical breakthroughs.
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