PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Shawn Kelly has received a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a retinal prosthesis for restoring functional vision to the blind.

"This is wonderful support for work so critical to millions of Americans battling vision issues like macular degeneration," said Kelly, a senior systems scientist at CMU's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES).

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