Isaiah Osei Duah Junior, OD, is a trained optometrist and currently a research assistant at the Department of Optometry and Visual Science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Isaiah has worked on various vision, cognition, nutrition, metabolism, and microbiology projects and has developed an interest in disease mechanisms and drug discovery. He is a recipient of the Harvard Crossroad Emerging Leaders Fellowship, Frans Oosterhof Travel Grant, Youth Think Tank Research Award, and the TiDi Foundation Undergraduate Dissertation Research Grant. He is an active member of various international organizations, notably the American Academy of Optometry, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Vision Sciences Society, the American Society for Nutrition, and the American Society for Microbiology.