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Reducing Childhood Myopia, Boosting Resilient Ageing Through Novel Light Exposure App
9 November 2023
Photo credits: TUMCREATE and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
TUMCREATE, a multidisciplinary research platform of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Singapore, and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), kicked off a new research project called "LightSPAN." This project aims to investigate the efficacy of optimizing light exposure to reduce myopia prevalence among school-going children and promote resilient aging. The Lead Principal Investigators, Assistant Professor Raymond Najjar from NUS Medicine's Department of Ophthalmology and Professor Manuel Spitschan from TUMCREATE are looking to encourage proactive behavioural change through the rollout of a low-intensity behaviour-modification programme, delivered through the smartphone application “LightUP”.
Read more in the press release here.
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Lianhe Zaobao, 9 November 2023