Rajesh C. Rao

Rajesh C. Rao, M.D. ’07, a vitreoretinal surgery fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, submitted one of 10 entries selected by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, for its Audacious Goals challenge. Rao’s proposal involves restoring vision in patients whose retinas have deteriorated from diseases like age-related macular degeneration.