Fairfax, VA ―The ASCRS Foundation Research Grant Program submission deadline is January 31, 2006. The annual research grant program, inaugurated last year, issues ten $5,000 grants to further research into all areas of eye disease and treatment. Awards will be made in March 2006 at the ASCRS Annual Symposium in San Francisco. Grants will be limited to one grant per approved applicant per year. A requirement of the grant program is that the research findings must be presented as a paper or a poster at the following year’s ASCRS Annual Symposium (2007 for this grant cycle).
The foundation’s research program is designed to provide a critical first infusion of funding for those looking to explore a promising new idea. The program is open to practicing ophthalmologists and those still in training. “ASCRS was founded by young, enterprising ophthalmologists, and the ASCRS Foundation Research Grant Program is a way to carry on that tradition,” said Foundation Chairman, I. Howard Fine, adding, “This is a wonderful opportunity to advance the research efforts of today’s young ophthalmologists.”
For applications and information go the ASCRS Web Site at http://www.ascrs.org/Foundation/Foundation-Research.cfm, or contact Don Bell at (703) 591-2220.
ASCRS Foundation 2005 Research Grant Winners
- Guy Kleinmann, MD, Salt Lake City, UT
Hydrophilic acrylic IOLs as a drug delivery system - Shlomit Schaal, MD, Haifa, Israel
Mechanisms of oxygen induced cataract - Renee Solomon, MD, New York, NY
A prospective multi-center controlled study of laser in situ keratomileusis and photorefractive keratectomy in the treatment of post-keratoplasty refractive errors - Gaston O. Lacayo, III, MD, Chicago, IL
Prospective evaluation of PRK with MMC vs. Epi-LASIK in the development of corneal haze - Nathan Radcliffe, MD, New York, NY
Central corneal thickness, race, and myopia - Asad Abbas, MD, Beaumont, TX
Immediate intra-operative aqueous fluid sample cultures after in vitro contamination with staphylococcus epidermidis: A comparison of patients receiving Gatifloxacin and Moxifloxacin preoperatively - Q. Jocelyn Ge, MD, PhD, New Orleans, LA
Preliminary results on p-HEMA hydrogel as drug-delivery contact lens in a rabbit model - Rolando Toyos, MD, Jackson, TN
Intense pulse broadband light: A novel treatment for dry eye syndrome - Amir Pirouzian, MD, FAAO, San Diego, CA
Limbal relaxing corneal incisions in pediatric population: Does decreasing anisometropic astigmatism reduce amblyopia and enhance the compliance to therapy? - Jacob J. Moore, MD, Augusta, GA
Hybridization of soft tissues with photopolymerized methacrylates: A novel adhesive in ocular surgery
