A new award through the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund will be used to establish the T. Boone Pickens Rising Professorship in Ophthalmology at Wilmer. The endowment will provide support for Kunal Parikh, a world-class innovator in the field of nanomedicine, and reinforce entrepreneurial activities focused on preventing vision loss, improving surgical outcomes and transforming treatment of neurological disorders.
Johns Hopkins University received $1.25 million from Commerce to establish the T. Boone Pickens Rising Professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The award was matched by $1.5 million in donations from the university, which was part of a larger gift made to Wilmer by the Boone Pickens Foundation. This endowment will allow the university to provide support for Dr. Kunal Parikh, a word-class innovator in the field of nanomedicine, and to reinforce entrepreneurial activities focused on preventing vision loss, improving surgical outcomes, and transforming treatment of neurological disorders.
