Rajagopal awarded Young Physician-Scientist honor

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Rajagopal

Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Young Physician-Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Rajagopal, working with Clay F. Semenkovich, the Irene E. and Michael M. Karl Professor and director of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research, has found that vision loss from diabetic retinopathy may begin much earlier than previously believed.

Read more on the School of Medicine site.

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