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Research Grant Awards
Midwest Eye-Banks has announced that the following researchers and projects will receive funding as part of its annual Eye and Vision Research Program for 2007-2008: Howard Petty, Ph.D.
Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Michigan, Kellogg Eye Center
Time-gated single molecule fluorescence imaging of human retina ex-vivo.
$15,000
Simon Petersen-Jones, DVetMed, Ph.D.
Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Intravitreal delivery of 9-cis retinal to rescue the mutant phenotype of a canine model of Leber Congenital Amaurosis.
$15,000
Hemant Khanna, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Michigan, Kellogg Eye Center
Elucidation of cilliary dysfunction in CEP290/NPHP6-associated Leber congenital amaurosis.
$14,861
Christine Nelson, MD
Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Michigan, Kellogg Eye Center
Genetics of anophthalmia in a three generation pedigree
$15,000
Shahzad Mian, MD
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Michigan, Kellogg Eye Center
Femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty.
$15,000
Gabriel Sosne, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
NFkappaB: A novel potential mechanism of action of thymosin beta 4.
$15,000
Nicolas Cottaris, Ph.D.
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Characterizing the temporal precision of retinal ganglion cells responses induced by prosthetic epiretinal stimulation with planer electrodes.
$15,000
Joshua Bartoe, DVM
Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Do PDE5 inhibitors have the potential to cause irreversible retinal changes in heterozygous carriers of PDE6 mutations?
$15,000
In addition to these research projects, $2,000 stipends were awarded to five students involved in eye and vision research at the University of Illinois Chicago, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
This brings the total eye and vision research and student stipend funding provided by Midwest to $144,861 for 2007-2008. Midwest has awarded more than $2 million in seed money grants since its Eye and Vision Research Program began in 1980. Over the years, this funding has led to important scientific findings, including the discovery of a gene that, if defective, can cause early childhood blindness. Eye and Vision Research Program for 2006-2007: Charlotte E. Joslin, O.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Chicago-area acanthamoeba keratitis study.
$9,228
Surendra Basti, M.D.
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology
Can corneal epithelial stem cell kinetics be modified xx-vivo to yield a pure population of stem cells for transplantation?
$14,992
Ali Djalilian, M.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Evaluation of the function and persistence of transplanted limbal stem cells cultured on a collagen matrix.
David N. Zacks, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan, Department of Ophthalmology
Intravitreal linezolid in rabbits, An electrophysiologic and histopathologic analysis.
$15,000
Kenneth R. Alexander, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Visual noise and computational efficiency in retinal degenerations.
$15,000
Ashok Kumar, Ph.D.
Wayne State University, Kresge Eye Institute
Regulation of TLR mediated-inflammatory response by dietary compound curcumin in the cornea.
$15,000
Deepak Shukla, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Role of nectin-1 in corneal HSV infection.
$15,000
David C. Musch, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, Department of Ophthalmology
Long-term follow-up of keratoconus graft recipients.
$15,000
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