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Pay attention to blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of people with impaired vision is the goal of World Sight Day, which is held the second Thursday of October and which this year falls on 8, according to United Nations established .

In the same spirit working group Multidisciplinary Research and Safety Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) led by Professor José Nieto, who is developing a project to be able to detect before a rare disease that affects the manifest cornea and causes blindness in its most severe grades.

Researchers have recently applied for a grant to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness to move forward on this project.

Already they got an award for the best paper at the XXV International Congress of Graphic Engineering, where they showed that they had developed a graphical tool that helps ophthalmologists to diagnose keratoconus, a rare disease that affects the cornea and generates a progressive loss of visual acuity.

Now, the research focuses, says the professor of Graphic Expression UPCT Francisco Cavas, to "improve methods to detect the disease before it manifests.

If we succeed, we will be able to tell the patient that will develop the disease and the means necessary for this not to happen, or otherwise, minoritised the possible effects of the disease. "

Similarly, thank the collaboration of the Social Council of the University for having managed the award of a grant for collaboration funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport for the students of the School of Industrial Engineering.

Currently, part of the project the teachers of the department of Graphic Expression UPCT Jose Nieto, Francisco J. Fernandez, Francisco Cavas and Daniel Garcia;

as well as teaching at the University of Murcia, Ernesto de la Cruz, and Vissum eye clinic, located in Alicante, and directed by Professor of Ophthalmology at the University Miguel Hernández de Elche, Jorge Alio.

Source: UPCT