#  Grants Received in July and August, 2019 

 





September 09, 2019

 

 

 **Ye Sun, MD, PhD (Boston Children's Hospital)**  
National Eye Institute: $2,210,000 over five years  
Photoreceptor determination of retinal blood vessel growth in retinopathy

 **Joseph Ciolino, MD (Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity: $2,098,767 over three years  
Steroid-eluting therapeutic contact lens to treat and prevent inflammation and scarring following ocular trauma

 **Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD (Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
National Eye Institute (R21 grant): $541,750 over two years   
Uncoupling caspase 8-mediated-apotosis from caspase 8-mediated-inflammation in glaucoma

 **Michael Gilmore, PhD (Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: $467,000 over two years  
New understanding of LTA as a determinant of daptomycin susceptibility in VRE E. faecium

 **Kip Connor, PhD (Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD (Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear)  
BrightFocus Foundation: $200,000 over one year  
Targeting the alternative complement pathway in glaucoma

 **David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH (Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
Johns Hopkins University: $50,000 over one year  
ACCESS: African Centers of Excellence in Cataract Surgical Services

 **David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH (Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
Johns Hopkins University: $89,382 over one year  
Optimizing approaches to identifying glaucoma among at-risk African Americans and Hispanics

 **Petr Baranov, PhD (Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
Research to Prevent Blindness: $38,334 over one year  
Deep learning-based approach for the assessment of retinal differentiation in 3D cell culture system

 **Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH (Mass. Eye and Ear)**  
Research to Prevent Blindness: $38,333 over one year  
Functional visual processing in cerebral compared to ocular visual impairment

 **Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD (Boston Children's Hospital)**  
National Eye Institute: $1,740  
PEDIG study: Low-dose atropine for treatment for myopia



 

 

 



 

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