ORIA 2007 GRANTS

AWARDS

ORIA/RANZCO GRANT

A/Prof Robyn Guymer

Title:  Dietary and genetic risk factors in age-related macular degeneration

Lay Title: Dietary and genetic risk factors in age-related macular degeneration

Amount Awarded:                                      $44,250.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year

ORIA/ESME ANDERSON GRANT

A/Prof J Craig and Dr A Hewitt

Title: The Bigger RISK study:  the Blindness in Glaucoma Genetic Epidemiology Relative RISK Study           

Lay Title:Finding common genetic markers which lead to glaucoma blindness:  A SNP study of candidate glaucoma genes 

Amount Awarded:                                      $49,280.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year

ORIA/RENNENSON BEQUEST GRANT

A/Professor Robert J Casson                                        

Title: The Spatiotemporal Pattern of Optic Nerve Pathology in Experimental Glaucoma      

Lay Title: The Spatiotemporal Pattern of Optic Nerve Pathology in Experimental Glaucoma      

Amount Awarded:                                      $50,700.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year        

ORIA/IDA MANN GRANT

Dr R Jamieson, Dr J Grigg, Prof F Billson & Dr M Flaherty

Title:Genetic studies in macular dystophy         

Lay Title:Understanding causes of macular disease of the eye     

Amount Awarded:                                      $43,917.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year

ORIA GRANT

Professor P McCluskey, Dr J Chang and Professor D Wakefield

Title: The role of IL-17 in the pathogenesis of uveitis    

Lay Title: IL-17 is an immune hormone critically involved in the onset of inflammatory eye disease.

Amount Awarded:                                      $59,410.00

Duration of Funding:                                  one year

ORIA GRANT

A/Prof M Gillies & Dr M Windsor

Title:Is beta catenin involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy           

Lay Title:Beta catenin:  a potential new cause of diabetic retinopathy      

Amount Awarded                                       $30,000.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year

ORIA/RANZCO EYE FOUNDATION GRANT

A/Prof Keryn Williams, Dr Helen Brereton & Prof D Coster

Title: A proteomics approach to retinopathy of prematurity      

Lay Title: Identification of proteins that cause eye disease in some premature babies

Amount Awarded:                                      $35,458.00

Duration of Funding:                                    one year       

ORIA GRANT

Dr F J Lovicu and Professor J W McAvoy

Title:Promoting Maintenance of the Lens Epithelium:  Implications for Controlling Cataract Development             

Lay Title:  Maintenance of the lens epithelium

Amount Awarded:                                      $43,460.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year                    

ORIA GRANT

Dr P Baird

Title: Genetic analysis of the Complement Factor H (CFH) gene and age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

Lay Title:The role of genes in the eye disease of age-related macular degeneration

Amount Awarded:                                      $48,558.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year

ORIA/Young Investigator Grant

Dr J Ng and Dr N Morlet

Title: Utilisation of eye care services      

Lay Title: The use of eye care services by an entire Australian community

Amount Awarded:                                      $45,800.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year

ORIA/RANZCO EYE FOUNDATION GRANT

Dr J Crowston

Title:Age-related mitochondrial dysfunction and the vulnerability of retinal ganglion cells to oxidative stress in glaucoma                  

Lay Title: Delaying age-related vulnerability of the optic nerve to glaucoma damage   

Amount Awarded:                                      $70,000.00

Duration of Funding:                                   two years       

ORIA/GLAUCOMA AUSTRALIA INC. GRANT

Dr Kathryn Burdon

Title:Genetic Investigations of Central Corneal Thickness in Relation to Blinding Glaucoma                       

Lay Title: Genetics of Corneal Thickness in Glaucoma       

Amount Awarded:                                                 $63,000.00

Duration of Funding:                                  two years

ORIA GRANT

Dr P Healey, Dr Xia Yang Wang and Dr Hans Zoellner

Title:Apoptosis in glaucoma surgery                  

Lay Title:Apoptosis in glaucoma surgery      

Amount Awarded:                                                $50,000.00

Duration of Funding:                                 one year

ORIA GRANT

Dr S Sarks, D S Cherepanoff and Prof P McMenamin

Title: Localised, distribution and phenotype of human choroidal macrophage subpopulations in health and ageing: Implications for age-related macular degeneration        

Lay Title:Macrophages and the ageing human eye:  implications for age-related macular degeneration.       

Amount Awarded:                                      $32,138.00

Duration of Funding:                                   one year

ORIA GRANT

Dr Stephanie L Watson

Title:Techniques for the repair and regeneration of the corneal stroma           

Lay Title: Innovations in the treatment of corneal scarring   

Amount Awarded:                                                $37,460.00

Duration of Funding:                                 one year

TOTAL AWARDED                                                   $703,431.00

THE ORIA IS GRATEFUL TO RANZCO, THE EYE FOUNDATION AND GLAUCOMA AUSTRALIA INC FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT.