U-M opens new tower at Kellogg Eye Center

It’s hard not to see the new addition to the Kellogg Eye Center complex. The Brehm Tower promises to create more opportunities for research, innovation, and employment at the University of Michigan.Excerpt:A new research center at the University of Michigan is opening now that the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Complex has completed the Brehm Tower.The $132 million facility will provide 230,000 square feet to expand U-M’s capacity for eye-care research and education. Researchers will also be working on how eye sight relates to diabetes and other diseases. That research is becoming more in demand because it primarily affects older segments of the population. The U.S. population, as well as Michigan’s, continues to get older as Baby Boomers reach retirement age.”This population will be growing significantly over the next 15-20 years,” says Dr. Paul R. Lichter, professor and chair of the University of Michigan Dept of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and director of the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center. “That population is the one that has glaucoma and other ailments we specialize in.”Read the rest of the story here.