What area of diabetes research does your project cover? What role will this particular project play in preventing, treating and/or curing diabetes? The PI (Dr. Uddin) is a primary faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and has a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. His long-term goal is to develop novel gene therapy methods to treat retinal vascular diseases, primarily diabetic retinopathy (DR). Dr. Uddin is a chemist and biomedical engineer by training, with