Maria B. GrantMaria B. Grant M.D., holds the Eivor and Alston Callahan, M.D., Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. She has had a career in academic medicine for the last thirty years and her research focuses on vascular repair mchanisms in the eye and how these protective mechanisms are altered in diabetes. Dr Grant's lab also examines ocular angiogenesis and potential therapeutic applications for treating retinal and neovascular eye diseases. Her laboratory has been funded by the National Eye Institute since 1986. While she has conducted primarily basic research, she has also been the primary investigator in clinical research studies. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and holds 12 patents. Read More Read Less