Macula Vision Research Grant Award Winners

From March 16, 1998, the Macula Vision Research Foundation has awarded more than $12 million in grants to an exceptional group of vision scientists.

2009
Paul S. Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Moran Eye Center
University of Utah

Bo Chang, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory

Joe G. Hollyfield, Ph.D.
Cole Eye Institute
The Cleveland Clinic

Alfred S. Lewin, Ph.D.
University of Florida

2008
Rando L. Allikmets, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
Columbia University

Eyal Banin, M.D., Ph.D.
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center

Dean Bok, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, Department of Ophthalmology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Artur V. Cideciyan, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Scheie Eye Institute
University of Pennsylvania

Steven K. Fisher, Ph.D.
University of CA Santa Barbara
Neuroscience Research Institute

William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology and Molecular Genetics
University of Florida College of Medicine

Samuel G. Jacobson, M.D., Ph.D.
Center for Hereditary Retinal Degenerations
Scheie Eye Institute
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2007

Jean Bennett, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Scheie Eye Institute

Thomas A. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine

Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D.
McKusick Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Robert F. Mullins, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
The University of Iowa

Catherine Bowes Rickman, Ph.D.
Ophthalmology and Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center

Jane Sowden, Ph.D.
UCL Institute of Child Health
London, UK

Gabriel H. Travis, M.D.
Jules Stein Eye Institute
UCLA School of Medicine

2006

Josephine Hoh, Ph.D.
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine

Prof. Alan Wright
Cell and Molecular Genetics Section
MRC Human Genetics Unit Edinburgh

Andrew J. Lotery MD FRCOphth
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK

Alan D. Marmorstein, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Arizona

Joshua L. Dunaief, M.D., Ph.D
University of Pennsylvania
Scheie Eye Institute

Edwin N. Pugh, Jr.. Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Scheie Eye Institute

2005

Josephine Hoh, Ph.D.
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine

Prof. Alan Wright
Cell and Molecular Genetics Section
MRC Human Genetics Unit Edinburgh

Andrew J. Lotery MD FRCOphth
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK

Alan D. Marmorstein, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Arizona

2004

Rando L. Allikmets, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
Columbia University

Jayakrishna Ambati, M.D.
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
University of Kentucky

Constance L. Cepko, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Harvard University

Christine A. Curcio, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dennis W. Schultz, Ph.D.
Casey Eye Institute
Oregon Health & Science University

December 2003

Colin J. Barnstable, D. Phil.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Yale University School of Medicine

William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology and Molecular Genetics
University of Florida College of Medicine

Roderick R. McInnes, M.D. Ph.D.
Program in Developmental Biology
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robert S. Molday, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of British Columbia

Edwin M. Stone, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics