{"id":754,"date":"2017-09-08T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en?p=754"},"modified":"2017-09-08T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:28:42","slug":"research-grant-winner-implants-quebecs-first-bionic-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Research Grant Winner Implants Quebec&#8217;s First Bionic Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Flavio Rezende, who won the Retina Foundation of Canada Clinical Research Grant in 2012, was part of the team to implant the first Argus II prothesis in Quebec.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gazette_rezende.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-756 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gazette_rezende.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"637\" \/><\/a>We would like to congratulate Dr. Rezende on his accomplishment, and celebrate the gift of sight.<br \/>\nDr. Rezende also received a Senior Research Grant in 2015 to study <strong>diabetic macular edema<\/strong>.<br \/>\nRead and watch more here in this <a href=\"http:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/local-news\/the-gift-of-sight-montreal-surgeon-implants-bionic-eye-in-blind-woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montreal Gazette article online<\/a>.<br \/>\nOr read the article<a href=\"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gazette_rezende.pdf\"> Montreal surgeon implants bionic eye in blind woman<\/a> in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) by clicking on the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Flavio Rezende, who won the Retina Foundation of Canada Clinical Research Grant in 2012, was part of the team to implant the first Argus II prothesis in Quebec. We would like to congratulate Dr. Rezende on his accomplishment, and celebrate the gift of sight. Dr. Rezende also received a Senior Research Grant in 2015 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/?p=754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research Grant Winner Implants Quebec&#8217;s First Bionic Eye<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}