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Amir Kashani awarded nearly $600,000 grant for dementia research<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Amir Kashani, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology (clinical scholar), received an NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant for $599,286 for a multi-center study to develop new methods using the eye to detect the onset, progression and severity of cognitive impairment and dementia. 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