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Eugene Osae

Also known as: A.E. Osae, E.A. Osae, Eugene Appenteng Osae

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.

ORCID iD 0000-0002-2059-7823
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I hold a Doctor of Optometry (OD) degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate and clinical research assistant at the University of Houston, College of Optometry, in Houston , Texas, USA. My research focuses on metabolic syndrome and its effects on the Meibomian gland and the ocular surface. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions including obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, systemic inflammation, and hyperglycemia. Metabolic syndrome is on the rise and the obesity which is a global epidemic is a major risk factor for type II diabetes. Metabolic syndrome has other complications on the eye.
Maintaining a healthy ocular surface is challenging, even in healthy individuals and this becomes far more challenging in inflammatory states such as metabolic syndrome. Using a diet-induced obesity model, where mice develop metabolic syndrome I employ a multiprong approach of meibography, electron microscopy and lipidomics to investigate the structural and functional alterations in the meibomian gland and general ocular surface homeostasis. The goal is to gain a better understanding of how ocular surface health is challenged by inflammatory diseases (obesity, diabetes, autoimmunity and dry eye) and how a better understanding of these inflammatory states can guide the design of therapeutics for restoring ocular surface health .

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Education

  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. Doctor of Optometry
    2009 - Present

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