The Thomas and Susan Carlow Young Investigator Award


This award was established to encourage and recognize basic or clinical research in neuro-ophthalmology by a NANOS candidate or active member. The originality, scientific merit and neuro-ophthalmic interest of a developing investigator’s total body of work combined with a representative new research manuscript will be considered as criteria to determine the award recipient. The award is selected by the Research Committee during the Annual Meeting and need not be given annually. It is not open to NANOS Fellows.

2024 Recipient
Benson Chen, MBChB, MSc, FRACP - "Vision-Related Quality of Life in LHON Patients Treated with Lenadogene Nolparvovec Gene Therapy: Analysis of the VFQ-25 using Rasch Measurement Theory"

2021 Recipient
Eric Gaier, MD, PhD - “Digital Therapeutic Improves Visual Acuity and Encourages High Adherence in Amblyopic Children”

2019 Recipient
Ahmara G. Ross, MD, PhD -  “Development of a Retinal Ganglion Cell Specific Gene Therapy Using SIRT1 Signaling”

2019 Recipient
Ghislaine L. Traber, MD - “The untuned visuo-temporal cortex in patients with visual snow”

2017
Kimberly Gokoffski, MD, PhD - Physiological Electrical Fields Direct Retinal Ganglion Cell Neuritis Growth

2015
Heather E. Moss, MD, PhD - The Photopic Negative Response in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

2014
Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, BMedSci, MBBS, PhD, FRCOphth - The molecular and neuro-ophthalmological features of autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS)

2013
Robert A. Avery, DO - Hand-Held Optical Coherence Tomography During Sedation Detects Visual Acuity and Visual Field Loss in Young Children with Optic Pathway Gliomas

2012
Beau B. Bruce, MD, MS - Non-mydriatic Ocular Fundus Photography Read by Emergency Department (ED) Physicians: FOTO-ED Study

2011
Y. Joyce Liao, MD, PhD - Laser-Assisted Transplantation of Stem Cells into the Adult Eye

2009
Michael S. Salman, PhD, MRCP - Characteristics of the Cerebellar Dysplasia in Chiari Type II Malformation as Revealed by Ocular Motor Functions

2008
Kenneth Schindler, MD - Orally Administered SIRT1 Activator SRT501 is Neuroprotective for Retinal Ganglion Cells and Suppresses and Neurological Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis

2007
Fiona Costello, MD, FRCP - Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Measurements in Optic Neuritis:  Determining the Role of OCT in Predicting Visual Recovery and the Future Risk of MS

2005
Steven F. Stasheff, MD, PhD - Alterations in Spontaneous and Light-evoked Ganglion Cell Activity During Retinal Degeneration in rd1 Mice

2004
John B. Kerrison, MD - Candidate Gene Analysis in X-linked Congenital Nystagmus (NYS1) [photo]

2003
Agnes M.F. Wong, MD, PhD, FRCSC - Early Versus Delayed Correction of Infantile Strabismus in Macaque Monkeys: Effects on Cerebral Ocular Motor Circuits [photo]

2002
Valerie Biousse, MD - The Eyes of Mito-Mouse

2000
Sean Donahue, MD - Skew Deviation and Inferior Oblique Palsy

1999
Wolf Lagrese, MD - Neuroprotection with Memantine, Cerestat,and Riluzole in a Rat Model of Acute Retinal Ischemia

1998
Jason J. S. Barton, MD - Ocular Tracking of Step-Ramp Targets by Patients with Unilateral Cerebral Lesions

1997
Leonard A. Levin, MD, PhD - Induction of Gene Expression after Retinal Ganglion Cell Axotomy

CELEBRATING DR. THOMAS J. CARLOW’S LIFE AND LEGACY

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