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New research awards at the Institute of Ophthalmology聽
21 April 2016
We are delighted to announce a number of new research awards that have been made to researchers at the Institute of Ophthalmology. Congratulations to the staff who have won funding and thank you to the bodies who fund our work. Together we are making a difference. A full list of awards is shown below:
| Researcher | Funder | Project title | 聽IoO Amount聽 |
| 聽Robin Ali | Macular Society | Purchase of a bioreactor cell culture platform to support our photoreceptor differentiation for the treatment and modelling of retinal degenerations.聽聽 | 听拢13,613 |
| Maryse Bailly | Rosetrees Trust | The protein as LIMCH1 as novel disease marker in fibrosis and cancer | 听拢20,217 |
| Maryse Bailly | Moorfields Eye Charity | The role of Src family kinases in Thyroid Eye Disease: disease mechanisms and therapeutic potential | 听拢49,000 |
| Virginia Calder | Ziarco Pharma Ltd | Validation of H4R directed inhibition in EAU model | 听拢听33,115 |
| Matteo Carandini (fellow: Nick Steinmetz) | EU H2020 | Neocortical circuits underlying visually-guided behaviour in mouse | 听拢126,576 |
| Matteo Carandini (fellow: Andrew Peters) | Royal Society | Corticostriatal interactions in perceptual learning | 听拢101,000 |
| Matteo Carandini (fellow: Julien Fournier) | EU Marie Curie | Vision and Navigation in Mouse Cortex | 听拢听136,818 |
| Francesca Cordeiro | Wellcome Trust | Topical delivery of Ranibizumab (Lucentis) for non-invasive treatment of retinal disease聽聽聽聽 | 听拢1,666,193 |
| Julie Daniels | Animal Health Trust聽 | Deriving an in vitro source of canine corneal stromal cells to use as a tool to study inherited dystrophies in dogs | 听拢88,500 |
| Alex Day | 狈滨贬搁听 | A Randomised Comparison of Femtosecond Laser Assisted vs Manual Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery for Adults with Visually Significant Cataract: The FACT trial | 听拢54,958 |
| Clare Futter | Wellcome Trust | Cell biology and pathology of the retinal pigment epithelium | 听拢87,155 |
| Peng Khaw | Moorfields Eye Charity | Identification of novel biomarkers to develop a customised gene chip in conjunctival fibrosis | 听拢6,710 |
| Sue Lightman | National Institutes of Health (US) | Macular Edema Trials Associated with MUST (META-MUST): POINT and MERIT | 拢80,755 |
| Sue Lightman | 狈滨贬搁听 | Optimal utilisation of biologic drugs in Beh莽et鈥檚 Disease | 听拢12,961 |
| John Marshall | Moorfields Eye Charity | Final laser-dose titration data required to enable re-instatement of clinical trials for the 2RT-mediated laser treatment of dry AMD. | 听拢46,530 |
| Mike Michaelides | National Institutes of Health (US) | Platform Technologies for Microscopic Retinal Imaging: Development & Translation | 听拢20,549 |
| Mariya Moosajee | NIHR BRC | Mapping the clinical phenotype of Choroideremia to identify an optimal therapeutic window for preventing sight loss- A UK multicentre deep phenotyping study | 听拢182,121 |
| Shin-ichi Ohnuma | Moorfields Eye Charity | Unlocking the genetic code 鈥� Single cell separator | 听拢160,600 |
| Christiana Ruhrberg | MRC | Defining a novel molecular mechanism in VEGF-induced vascular hyperpermeability | 听拢564,176 |
| Christiana Ruhrberg | British Heart Foundation | BHF Studentship rotation for Kirsty Naylor | 听拢2,250 |
| Christiana Ruhrberg | British Heart Foundation | BHF student rotation for Rebecca Bolton | 听拢2,250 |
| Mandeep Sagoo | Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh | Identification of new mechanisms and targets in retinoblastoma | 听拢49,985 |
| Yu Wai Man, Patrick | NIHR BRC聽 | Rare diseases project in dominant optic atrophy | 听拢154,856 |
| Patrick Yu Wai Man | Moorfields Eye Charity | Investigating disease mechanisms in autosomal dominant optic atrophy with retinal ganglion cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells | 听拢109,914 |