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Anthony Nanlin Kuo

Professor of Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology, Corneal Diseases
Box 3802 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
2351 Erwin Rd, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


2/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030

Academic/Industry Partnership for Next-Generation Robotically Guided Intraoperative Ophthalmic OCT

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2029

Compact Auto-Aligning Multi-Modality Eye Imager to Diagnose Traumatic Eye Injury

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity · 2024 - 2028

Self-aligning, motion-stabilized ocular imaging for eye care in urgent and emergent care settings

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2027

Auto-aligning hand-held OCT and OCTA for pediatric applications

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Eye Institute · 2024 - 2026

Robotic OCT for automated mapping of outer retinal layer thicknesses

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026

Whole Eye Optical Coherence Tomography to Improve Eye Care

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026

Collaborative Research: NRI: Toward Safe and Reliable Robotic Eye Examinations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 2023 - 2026

Integrating Duke 4D MIOCT into Zeiss Artevo Ophthalmic Surgical Microscope for Use in the Operating Room

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Carl Zeiss Meditec AG · 2025 - 2026

Robotically Assisted Anterior Eye Examinations for Acute Eye Care

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc. · 2023 - 2025

Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024

Automated OCT Technology Translation to Diagnose Traumatic Eye Injury

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity · 2020 - 2024

Assessment of Short-term Changes in Choroidal Thickness Related to Angle of Incidence and Myopic Defocus

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johnson & Johnson · 2021 - 2024

Intraoperative OCT Guidance of Intraocular Surgery

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024

Portable motion-stabilized optical coherence tomography for eye care in acute care settings

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2022

Intrasurgical OCT Image-Guided Robot Assist Device for Partial Thickness Corneal Transplanation

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022

Handheld Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope for Remote Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022

Using Machine Learning to Identify Eye Disease in Optical Coherence Tomography Images Obtained from a Robotically-Aligned Scanner

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc. · 2021 - 2021

Dynamic In Vivo Human Choroidal Thickness Measurements

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Johnson & Johnson · 2019 - 2020

Robotically Aligned Optical Coherence Tomography for Automated Eye Examination

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by KUKA AG · 2020 - 2020

OCT Technology Development to Assess Ocular Integrity and Characterize Intraocular Scatterers

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity · 2016 - 2020

Temporal dynamics of retinal ganglion cell neurodegeneration in glaucoma

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2018

Variability of Landmark Based Keratometry (VERION) Compared to Standard Automated Keratometry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alcon Research, Inc. · 2016 - 2017

Intraoperative OCT Guidance of Intraocular Surgery

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2017

Field Deployable Optical Coherence Tomography for Triage of Ocular Trauma

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command · 2012 - 2016

Imaging to predict refractive outcomes after corneal endothelial keratoplasty

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2015

Motion Artifact Reduced SDOCT of the Anterior Segment

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2012

External Relationships


  • Leica

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