All AMD / RP Awards were supported by the generosity of Roger and Lynn Van Vreede and by the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund
2023 Winners
Nader Sheibani, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH
Award: AMD Award
Project title:
Caffeine and Mitigation of Angioinflammatory and Fibrotic Processes in Exudative AMD
Ismail Zaitoun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH
Award: AMD Award
Project title:
Undesirable Outcomes of Wound Healing in Exudative AMD
Kimberly Stepien, MD
Professor
Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH
Award: RP Award
Project title:
Comparison of Clarus and Optos Ultrawide Field Imaging for Retinitis Pigmentosa (COCO – RP)
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2022 Recipients
2022 Winners
Akihiro Ikeda, DVM, PhD
Timothy W. Trout Professor
in Eye Research
Department of Medical Genetics, SMPH
Award: AMD Award
Project title:
Lipidomic Analysis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Patients
Sushmita Roy, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, SMPH
Award: AMD Award
Project title:
High Resolution Characterization of Photoreceptor Populations in Cell-Based Therapy
Mrinalini Hoon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH
Award: RP Award
Project title:
Understanding How Connections Between Inner Retinal Neurons are Altered During Retinitis Pigmentosa