Research Grant Award Winners

Research Grant Recipients

2025 Recipients

Rajendre Apte, MD, PhD (IRRF)
Role of the Aging Immune System in Regulating Uveitis

Susanna S. Park, MD, PhD (IRRF)
Repeat Intravitreal Injection of CD34+ Stem Cells for Retinal Degeneration--Preclinical Safety and Efficacy Study

Adrienne W. Scott, MD (IRRF)
Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease with Macular Flow Voids and Cerebral MRI

Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD (IRRF)
Cell atlas of gut-retina-RPE-choroid axis

2024 Recipients

Leo Kim, MD, PhD (Mills and Margaret Cox Recipient)
Inhibition of Topoisomerase 1 for the treatment of Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy

Andreas Pollreisz, MD (IRRF Recipient)
High-resolution Imaging of Microglia in Diabetic Retinopathy Visualised by Adaptive-Optics OCT

Thiran Jayasundera, MD (IRRF Recipient)
Functional vision limitations and distress quantification in diabetic retinal diseases

Joshua Dunaief, MD (IRRF Recipient)
Nutritional intervention for AMD amelioration: a prospective trial feasibility study

Avni Finn, MD (IRRF Recipient)
Developing a Deep Learning Model for the Automated Analysis of Macular Holes

2023 Recipients

Thomas Wubben, MD (IRRF Recipient)
ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF GLUTAMINE CATABOLISM IN CONE PHOTORECEPTOR METABOLIC HOMEOSTASIS AND SURVIVAL

Matthew Simunovic, MD (IRRF Recipient)
Collagen Bioglue for Retinal Detachment Repair

Daniel Ting, MD (IRRF Recipient)
A Multi-Modal Explainable Artificial Intelligence System using Weakly Supervised Deep Learning Techniques to Detect and Prognosticate Center-Involving Diabetic Macular Edema Requiring Treatment via a Web-3 based Digital Platform

Luis Arias, MD (IRRF Recipient)
APPLICATION OF NEW MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES IN THE GENETIC DIAGNOSIS OF HEREDITARY RETINAL DYSTROPHIES

Francesco Bandello, MD (Margaret Cox Recipient)
From diagnostics to prognosis and response prediction: integrating imaging with genetics in patients with retinal vein occlusion

Glenn Yiu, MD (JMCDF Recipient)
Cellular and molecular profiling to improve the precision of anti-angiogenesis therapies for AMD

2022 Recipients

Abigail Fahim, MD

Effects of PRDM13 pathogenic variants on retinal pigment epithelium differentiation in North Carolina Macular Dystrophy

Ajay E. Kuriyan, MD, MS
Investigating the Role of Monocarboxylate Transporter 4 (MCT4) and Lactate in Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy

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Officers (2025-2026)

President:

Julia A. Haller, MD

Executive Secretary and Founder:

Lawrence J. Singerman, MD

President-Elect:

Judy E. Kim, MD

Secretary:

Richard F. Spaide, MD Treasurer: Mary Elizabeth R. Hartnett, MD

Committee Chairs

Awards:

Daniel F. Martin, MD

By-Laws:

Anita Agarwal, MD

Credentials:

Manjot K. Gill, MD

Endowment Committee:

Daniel F. Martin, MD
Meeting Planning:

William F. Mieler, MD, FACS, FARVO

Nominating:

Ivana K. Kim, MD

Program:

David Sarraf, MD

Research:

Amani Fawzi, MD

Website:

Dilraj S. Grewal, MD

International Membership:

Gemmy Cheung, MD

Young Member Representative:

Katherine E. Talcott, MD

AAO Representative:

Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS

Past Presidents

Arnall Patz, MD

J. Donald M. Gass, MD

Morton F. Goldberg, MD

Robert C. Watzke, MD

Stephen J. Ryan, MD

John G. Clarkson, MD

David H. Orth, MD

Alexander J. Brucker, MD

Lee M. Jampol, MD

Thomas M. Aaberg, MD

Travis A. Meredith, MD

Kurt A. Gitter, MD

William F. Mieler, MD

Daniel Finkelstein, MD

Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD

Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD

Jerry A. Shields, MD

Michael L. Klein, MD

Emily Y. Chew, MD

Mark S. Blumenkranz, MD

Neil M. Bressler, MD

Paul Sternberg, Jr., MD

M. Gilbert Grand, MD

Andrew P. Schachat, MD

James C. Folk, MD

H. Richard McDonald, MD

Joan W. Miller, MD

Carol L. Shields, MD
Mark W. Johnson, MD
Glenn J. Jaffe, MD
Daniel F. Martin, MD
Immediate Past President
SriniVas R. Sadda, MD

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