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The Kansas City Chapter was excited to tour the renowned lab facilities of the Vision Research Center of Kansas City at the UMKC School of Medicine on August 24, 2012. 

Dr. Peter Koulen, a professor and Felix and Carmen Sabates Missouri Endowed Chair in Vision Research with the Departments of Ophthalmology and Basic Medical Science at UMKC, led the tour.  We were fortunate to have some time with the doctor, who followed the tour with a question‐and‐answer session related to eye diseases.

At the Vision Research Center (VRC), scientists are at the cutting edge of vision research, attracting the brightest minds in the field to test new ideas and concepts using state‐of‐the‐art equipment to develop cures for diseases that affect the retina, including age‐related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma.