Obama Honors Pakistani-American With Nation's Top Technology Medal
From the Blog riazhaqPresident Obama has honored Dr. Mark Salman Humayun of Pakistani origin with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a White House ceremony recently, according to a USC Eye Institute press release. Dr. Humayun's "bionic eye" offers a solution for those who have the inherited retinal degenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Known as the Argus II, it uses a camera mounted on special glasses that sends a signal to an electronic receiver with electrodes that are implanted in and around the eye. The electrodes send signals to the retina that stimulate the retina and then these retinal impulses travel through the optic nerve to the brain where they are interpreted as images. Dr. Humayun's "bionic eye" received approval from the FDA in the U.S. in 2013 and since then pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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