Research

For the fourth consecutive year, Prevent Blindness has declared Dec. 2 to 8 as Geographic Atrophy Awareness Week and is offering free educational resources for both patients and eye care providers.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health announced funding worth up to $125 million to help four teams research eye transplantation, according to a press release.

The Cancer Research and Treatment Fund has awarded Despina Siolas, MD, PhD, a 2-year, $200,000 grant to enhance therapeutic outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer.

The American Academy of Optometry Foundation and Meta Reality Labs will fund a $1.5 million grant for three independent research studies on longitudinal visual experience and myopia outcomes, according to a foundation press release.

LIMA, Peru — Healio is on site for the International AIDS Society’s HIV Research for Prevention Conference, which will take place from Oct. 6 to 10.

The NIH announced that Eliezer Masliah, MD, now former director of the division of neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging, engaged in research misconduct while serving in the agency.

Black, Hispanic and Asian children have been underrepresented in Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group clinical studies relative to the general U.S. population, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Although male and female residents had similar rates of first author publication, results presented here showed female residents had fewer publications overall, lower H-indices and fewer first author publications.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Jennifer A. Galvin, MD, and Kimberly Winges, MD, encourage all ophthalmologists to submit their research for next year’s meeting.