Current Research Awards & Fellowships
2022 – 3D Biomimetic Retinal Organoid Culture via Tunable Hydrogel Systems
- Daniel Balikov, MD, PhD and Rajesh Rao, MD
- University of Michigan – Kellogg Eye Center
2022 - Risk Factors for Subsequent Retinal Detachment after Open Glove Injury: A Case-Control Study
- Arthur Chang, MS and William Mieler, MD
- University of Illinois Chicago
2022 - Clinical Outcomes after Giant Retinal Tear Repair and Prophylactic Intervention to the Fellow Eye
- Brian Cheng, MD and Sunir Garg, MD
- Wills Eye Hospital
2022 - Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Central Retinal Artery Occlusion, a Retrospective Cohort Study
- Christian Curren, MD, Peter Tang, MD, PhD and Thomas Masters, MD
- University of Minnesota - Department of Ophthalmology
2022 - Segmentation of Retinal Ischemic Perivascular Lesions from Optical Coherence Tomography B-scans Using Augmented Intelligence
- Michael Drakopoulos, MS and Rukhsana Mirza, MD
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2022 - Incidence of Retinal Detachment in Olmsted County, MN
- Haley D’Souza, MD and Matthew Starr, MD
- Mayo Clinic – Department of Ophthalmology
2022 - Changes in Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Ophthalmoscopy and Description of High-Resolution OCT Findings in Patients who Previously Did and Did Not have Hydroxychloroquine Toxicity
- Spencer Fuller, MD and Paul Bernstein, MD, PhD
- University of Utah - Moran Eye Center
2022 - Characterization of Retinal Smooth Muscle Cell Reduction (VSMC) with Aging in Mice
- Scott Garrett, BS and Jami Gurley, PhD
- University of Oklahoma - Dean McGee Eye Institute
2022 - Identifying Genotype-Phenotype Associations for CRX-linked Retinopathies
- Isabela Gomes, BA, Shiming Chen, PhD and Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD
- Washington University School of Medicine – Department of Ophthalmology
2022 - Regional vs General Anesthesia for the Surgical Repair of Open-Glove Injuries
- Julia Hudson, MD and Harry Flynn, MD
- University of Miami - Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
2022 - Time is Vision: Time to Eye Exam in Diabetics as Prognostic Factor for Diabetic Retinopathy
- Piotr Kopinski, MD, PhD and Matthew Starr, MD
- Mayo Clinic – Department of Ophthalmology
2022 - Visual Acuity Outcomes Following Macular Hole and Epiretinal Membrane Surgeries; Big Data Insights from the Sight Outcomes Research Collaborative (SOURCE) Database
- Colin Liphart, BA Judy Kim, MD and Velinka Medic, MS
- The Medical College of Wisconsin – Eye Institute
2022 - The Impact of Education Intervention in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Mickey Nguyen, BS and Peter Gehlbach, MD, PhD
- University of Michigan – Kellogg Eye Center
2022 - Repeatability, Reproducibility and Characterization of Choroidal Vascularity Index (CVI) in Handheld vs Tabletop OCT Images in Adults and Premature Infants
- Jay Rathinavelu, BS and Lejla Vajzovic, MD
- Duke Eye Center
2022 - Characterizing and Comparing Surgical Management Options for Submacular Hemorrhage
- Cason Robbins, MD and Sharon Fekrat, MD
- Duke Eye Center
2022 - Evaluating the Efficacy of Faricimab Intravitreal Injections in Reducing the
Treatment Burden in American Veterans
- Sydney Roston, BS and Karen Armbrust, MD, PhD
- University of Minnesota – Department of Ophthalmology
2022 - RS1 Mutation Analysis for X-linked Retinoschisis Complicated by Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment
- Jesse Sengillo, MD and Byron Lam, MD
- University of Miami – Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
2022 - Imaging Hyalocyte-like Cells (HLC) at the Vitreoretinal Interface in Epiretinal Membranes and Macular Holes
- Brian Soetinko, MD, PhD, Alfredo Dubra, PhD and Theodore Leng, MD
- Stanford University – Byers Eye Institute
2022 - Vitreous Cavity Bacterial Contamination and Vitreous Fluidics after Vitreoretinal Surgery
- Vishal Swaminathan, MD and Matthew Starr, MD
- Mayo Clinic – Department of Ophthalmology
2022 – High-Resolution Proteomic Profiling of Aqueous Humor Liquid Biopsies as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Tool for Choroidal Melanoma
- Julian Wolf, MD
- Stanford University - Byers Eye institute
2022 - Risk Factors for Retinal Artery Occlusion in Underrepresented US Populations
- Timothy Xu, MD and John Chen, MD, PhD
- Mayo Clinic – Department of Ophthalmology
2022 - Role of Lipin 1 in Energy Homeostasis in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium
- Colton Hill, BS, MPH and Yan Chen, PhD
- University of Oklahoma - Dean McGee Eye Institute
2022 - Apolipoprotein M is a Novel Therapeutic Approach to Drusen and Photoreceptor Dysfunction as seen in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Tae Jun (Tim) Lee, BS and Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD
- Washington University School of Medicine – Department of Ophthalmology
2022 - HTRA1/ARMS2 Genotype Dependant Resilience Against AMD Related Stressors and its
Potential as AMD Therapeutics
- Ditte Rasmussen, BS and Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD
- Stanford University – Byers Eye Institute
2022 – Combination Therapy of Gene Augmentation and Pharmacological Supplementation for CRX-Associated Retinopathies
- Chi Sun, PhD and Shiming Chen, PhD
- Washington University School of Medicine – Department of Ophthalmology