Optometrist Teresa Puthussery is focused on finding a solution to restore the vision of patients suffering from untreatable visual impairment.

On October 8, the 46-year-old Australia-born was adjudged as one the of 22 ‘genius’ winners of the MacArthur Grant. The winners of the fellowship will receive a cash award worth $800,000 as stipend.

The grant is constituted in the name of Catharine and John Donald MacArthur and recognises seminal and original contributions made by scientists, intellectuals and artists.

At the time of his death in 1978, Donald MacArthur was one of the wealthiest men in America and the sole owner of the nation’s largest privately held insurance company.

Puthussery’s lab at the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science at the University of California re

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