Ovitz — a University of Rochester Institute of Optics-based team working with technology developed at the Flaum Eye Institute and consisting of students (l-r) Pedro Vallejo-Ramirez, Felix Kim, Samuel Steven, Len Zheleznyak, Aizhong Zhang, and Nicholas Brown — pose with “EyeProfiler” a portable eye diagnosis instrument they developed and are working on commercializing that is smaller, cheaper and more accurate than existing devices and is especially suited for use among children, in Goergen Hall December 9, 2013. The group recently received an Excell Challenge Award of $10,000 from Excell Partners at the 2013 High Tech Rochester Pre-Seed Workshop last November. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester
