Celebrity Liu Xuyang?
The Helen Keller Foundation of the United States announced at the beginning of this month in Charleston, South Carolina, a historic city in the United States. The 2006 Helen Keller Foundation Award was awarded to Dr. Liu Xuyang from the Eye Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital and the University of Wisconsin in the United States in recognition of his outstanding contributions to basic research on glaucoma. It is understood that Dr. Liu Xuyang is the first Chinese individual to receive this honor.
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. She was blinded and deafened by encephalitis at 18 months of age. From then on, Helen lived in a silent and dark world. At the age of 6, Ann. Mansfield. Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan came into her life. Teacher Sullivan, 20, taught Helen sign language and literacy. With the help of this teacher, Helen became the first deaf-blind person in the world who could communicate well with the outside world. In 1899 Helen was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University. After graduation, Helen announced that she would devote her life to the cause of preventing blindness. In 1924 Helen became the main leader of the American Foundation for the Blind. In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" world movement. Helen received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. In 1971, the Alabama Lions Club built Helen Keller Memorial Park. The park is located in Ivy Green, Helen's birthplace, where there is a bust of her with her famous quote "Let me open the window of opportunity for you" engraved on it.
Professor Liu Xuyang received his master's and doctorate degrees in ophthalmology from Xiangya Medical College and Capital Medical University, where he studied under Professors Jiang Youqin and Wang Ningli. He once studied as a domestic visiting scholar at Zhongshan Ophthalmology Center and Tel Aviv National Hospital in Israel. He went to the United States in 1996 and has been engaged in glaucoma research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin for a long time. In recent years, under the guidance of famous glaucoma experts Kaufman, Jiang Youqin and Professor Wang Ningli, he has made outstanding contributions in the treatment of glaucoma, especially in the field of gene therapy. In 1999, he was awarded the U.S. Outstanding Talent Visa.
Glaucoma is a progressive and irreversible major cause of blindness. Although its pathogenesis is not fully understood, elevated intraocular pressure is generally considered to be one of its major risk factors. Therefore, lowering intraocular pressure has been the main method of treating glaucoma for a long time. At present, most of the effective intraocular pressure-lowering glaucoma treatments do not target the trabecular channels, the main drainage channel of aqueous humor, and there have always been problems such as poor patient compliance and side effects. Professor Liu Xuyang first introduced gene therapy into the study of glaucoma treatment, using genes to "reconstruct" trabecular channels to improve aqueous humor outflow and produce long-term effects. His work clarified the feasibility of gene therapy for glaucoma and was therefore a major breakthrough in glaucoma treatment research.