Grants Database
RPB Grant Awards from 2010
89 Awards ($9,294,600)
| RPB Grant Type |
Year |
Award |
Research Area |
Awardee |
Institution |
| Career Development Award | 2010 | $200,000 | Usher Syndrome | Ahmed, Zubair M / PhD | University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
| Investigating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells that mediate subconscious physiological responses to light. | |||||
| Career Development Award | 2010 | $200,000 | Glaucoma | Frankfort, Benjamin J / MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Understanding the earliest stages of visual disturbance in glaucoma to allow early diagnosis and management. | |||||
| Career Development Award | 2010 | $200,000 | Retina, Choroid, Glaucoma | Rex, Tonia S / PhD | University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| Using gene therapy with erythropoietin to develop treatments for currently incurable blinding diseases. | |||||
| Career Development Award | 2010 | $200,000 | Glaucoma, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Sappington, Rebecca M / PhD | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
| Uncovering the cellular signals that drive microglia (immune system cells) to the ganglion cell layer in glaucoma. | |||||
| Career Development Award | 2010 | $200,000 | Retina, Choroid | Sodhi, Akrit / MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Identifying novel targets for the treatment of retinal vascular diseases. | |||||
| Career Development Award | 2010 | $200,000 | Retina, Choroid, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Wong, Kwoon Y. / PhD | The Regents of the University of Michigan School of Medicine |
| Investigating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells that mediate subconscious physiological responses to light. | |||||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Baylor College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Duke University School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Emory University School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Harvard Medical School | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Medical College of Wisconsin | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Medical University of South Carolina | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | State University of New York Upstate Medical University | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | The Regents of the University of Michigan School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Tufts University School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Arizona College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of California, Davis, School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Cincinnati College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Florida College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Kentucky College of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Louisville School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Minnesota, Academic Health Center, Medical School | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Nebraska Medical Center | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Tennessee Health Science Center | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Utah Health Sciences Center | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | University of Washington School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine | ||
| Departmental Grant | 2010 | $100,000 | Wayne State University School of Medicine | ||
| Disney Award for Amblyopia Research | 2010 | $100,000 | Pediatric Ophthalmology, Eye Movement Disorders, Strabismus, Amblyopia, Neuro-Ophthalmology | Goldberg, Jeffrey Louis / MD, PhD | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Seeking to understand what changes can be detected in the visual pathways of the human amblyopic brain. | |||||
| International Research Scholar Award | 2010 | $2,100 | Low Vision | Fu, XianPing / PhD | Harvard Medical School |
| Developing driving and crash warning systems using computer vision and driving safety research, including eye and head tracking. | |||||
| International Research Scholar Award | 2010 | $2,500 | Cataract, Lens | Gerometta, Rosana M / MD | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Measuring simultaneous current and fluid movement around the lens surface. | |||||
| Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Retina, Choroid, Diabetic Retinopathy | Aiello, Lloyd Paul / MD, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
| Developing an approach to predict who will respond to diabetic eye disease therapy, and when to initiate and terminate therapy. | |||||
| Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Retina Choroid, Diabetic Retinopathy, Glaucoma, AMD | Ash, John D / PhD | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
| Restoring mitochondrial activity through new gene expression as a means of preventing or delaying retinal degeneration. | |||||
| Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Glaucoma | Fautsch, Michael P / PhD | Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine |
| Determining whether reducing intracranial pressure over a significant period alters optic nerve health. | |||||
| Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Huxlin, Krystel R / PhD | University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry |
| Laying the scientific groundwork for developing more efficient and successful retraining strategies to induce visual recovery in cortically blind patients. | |||||
| Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Retina, Choroid, Diabetic Retinopathy | Kaiser, Peter Kazuo / MD | Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU |
| To develop therapies that promote healthy blood vessel growth in diabetics in order to prevent diabetic retinopathy progression. | |||||
| Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Uveitis, Infectious Disease, Dry Eye | Shao, Hui / MD, PhD | University of Louisville School of Medicine |
| Studying the pathogenesis of ocular autoimmune uveitis and primary Sjogren's syndrome in order to develop immunotherapies. | |||||
| Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Retina, Choroid | Smith, W. Clay / PhD | University of Florida College of Medicine |
| Identifying a novel interaction for arrestin (a protein important for regulating signal transduction) in order to extend the lifetime of rods and cones in degenerative retinal diseases. | |||||
| Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship | 2010 | $30,000 | Diabetic Retinopathy | Ali, Ferhina S / BS | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Working on a pilot program that implements diabetic retinopathy treatment and screening in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh. | |||||
| Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship | 2010 | $30,000 | Retina, Choroid, AMD | Bagheri, Nika | Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU |
| Understanding the overall role of microglia in the pathology of agerelated macular degeneration (AMD). | |||||
| Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship | 2010 | $30,000 | Cornea, External Disease | Hsia, Joey Yen-Cheng / BS | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
| Elucidating the role of the host response in Acanthamoeba keratitis. | |||||
| Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship | 2010 | $30,000 | AMD | Marshall, Janelle | University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine |
| Understanding interactions between AMD-associated haplogroups to Benzo(e)Pyrene, a toxic component of cigarette smoke. | |||||
| Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship | 2010 | $30,000 | Glaucoma | Moore, Grant H | University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine |
| Comparing inter-eye differences in retinal structure in healthy and glaucoma patients of African descent to those of European descent. | |||||
| Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship | 2010 | $30,000 | Retina Choroid, AMD, Macular Dystrophy | Zhang, Wenlan (Wendy) | Duke University School of Medicine |
| Testing the hypothesis that dysregulation of the complement cascade (an immune system pathway) will exacerbate AMD. | |||||
| Physician-Scientist Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Cornea, External Disease | Jurkunas, Ula V / MD | Harvard Medical School |
| Examining how oxidative stress causes molecular and cellular damage in the susceptible Fuchs' dystrophy endothelium. | |||||
| Physician-Scientist Award | 2010 | $60,000 | AMD | Sadda, Srinivas / MD | Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California |
| Applying advanced quantitative image analysis to patients with AMD to predict response to therapy or risk for disease progression. | |||||
| Physician-Scientist Award | 2010 | $60,000 | AMD | Toth, Cynthia A. / MD | Duke University School of Medicine |
| Monitoring new therapies for retinopathy of prematurity in awake, premature newborns using a new, handheld imaging head to detect macula edema. | |||||
| Senior Scientific Investigator Award | 2010 | $75,000 | AMD, Diabetic Retinopathy | Bressler, Neil M / MD | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Evaluating a new home device for detecting the onset of choroidal neovascularization in AMD. | |||||
| Senior Scientific Investigator Award | 2010 | $75,000 | Retina, Choroid, Macular Dystrophy | Cideciyan, Artur, V / PhD | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Developing noninvasive methods to understand abnormalities in retinal structure, providing a foundation for expanding recent gene therapy successes in the treatment of diseases caused by mutations in the CRB1 gene. | |||||
| Senior Scientific Investigator Award | 2010 | $75,000 | Cornea, External Disease, Uveitis, Infectious Disease | Ferguson, Thomas A. / PhD | Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine |
| Exploring the effect of aging on immune privilege and how immune privilege can be modulated to treat AMD. | |||||
| Senior Scientific Investigator Award | 2010 | $75,000 | Glaucoma, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Gan, Lin / PhD | University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry |
| Identifying retinal ganglion cell (RGC) survival or death factor regulators; applying these discoveries to stem cell programmed RGC regeneration. | |||||
| Senior Scientific Investigator Award | 2010 | $75,000 | Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Sung, Ching-Hwa / PhD | Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Employing state-of-the-art technologies to identify candidate drug(s) that may slow or prevent photoreceptor death. | |||||
| Senior Scientific Investigator Award | 2010 | $75,000 | Retina, Choroid, AMD | Zhang, Kang / MD, PhD | University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine |
| Employing small-molecule-driven, stem-cell-based therapies (using human induced pluripotent stem cells) to treat geographic atrophy from dry AMD. | |||||
| Special Grant | 2010 | $125,000 | General Operating Support | Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology | |
| AUPO is a key ally in RPB's commitment to enrich the development of the Chairs, Directors of Research, and other leaders from departments of ophthalmology. | |||||
| Special Scholar Award | 2010 | $75,000 | Retina, Choroid, AMD, Macular Dystrophy | Hackam, Abigail S / PhD | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Defining a connection between the innate immune system and cell survival in retinal disease | |||||
| Special Scholar Award | 2010 | $60,000 | Retina, Choroid, Uveitis, Infectious Disease | Lu, Qingxian / PhD | University of Louisville School of Medicine |
| Determining if anti-inflammatory medication can be helpful in delaying the onset of retinitis pigmentosa. | |||||
| Stein Professorship/Extension | 2010 | $200,000 | Retina Choroid, AMD, Dry Eye, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Ferreira, Paulo / PhD | Duke University School of Medicine |
| Understanding genetic and molecular bases of retinal neurons. | |||||
| Stein Professorship/Lab | 2010 | $150,000 | Cornea, External Disease, Diabetic Retinopathy, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Antonetti, David A / PhD | The Regents of the University of Michigan School of Medicine |
| Using small-molecule inhibitors to restore and maintain normal blood vessel function in diseases of the retina. | |||||
| Stein Professorship/Lab | 2010 | $150,000 | Cornea, External Disease, Pharmacology, Physiology | Elisseeff, Jennifer H / PhD | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Developing a novel bio-adhesive to treat corneal injuries. | |||||
| Stein Professorship | 2010 | $500,000 | Cornea, External Disease, Diabetic Retinopathy, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuroscience | Antonetti, David A / PhD | The Regents of the University of Michigan School of Medicine |
| Using small-molecule inhibitors to restore and maintain normal blood vessel function in diseases of the retina. | |||||
| Stein Professorship | 2010 | $500,000 | Cornea, External Disease, Pharmacology, Physiology | Elisseeff, Jennifer H / PhD | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Developing a novel bio-adhesive to treat corneal injuries. | |||||
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