AMD / RP Award Recipients

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

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

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

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

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

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

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