Dr. Wenbo Zhang, Medical College of Georgia (IMAGE)

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Dr. Wenbo Zhang, Medical College of Georgia

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Dr. Wenbo Zhang, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the MCG Vascular Biology Center, is dissecting the relationship of interleukin-6 and one of the complications, diabetic retinopathy, and recently received a three-year, $270,000 advanced postdoctoral fellowship from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International to see if blocking this pro-inflammatory protein can target a new treatment for the potentially blinding disease.

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