Pilot Grant

2025

• Yin Allison Liu, MD, PhD - Ocular Biomarkers for Tau Pathology in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

2024

• Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen - Non-Invasive Identification of Alzheimer's Disease Through Ocular Analysis Utilizing Raman Spectroscopy

2023

• Melinda Chang, MD - Assessing lateral cortical inhibition in children with cortical visual impairment using visual evoked potentials
• Sidney Gospe III, MD, PhD - Reducing neuro-inflammation in a mouse model of mitochondrial optic neuropathy

2021

• Lindsey De Lott, MD, MS - “Early deep phenotyping of optic neuritis to inform medical decision making”

2020

• Michael Dattilo, MD, PhD - “Tree shrew retinal venous pulsations: Toward a system to non-invasively measure intracranial pressure”

2019

• Heather Moss, MD, PhD - “Optic Nerve Biomechanics in High Intracranial Pressure States”

2018

• Clare Fraser, MD - Is Visual Snow a Thalamo-Cortical Dysrhthmia of the Visual Processing System?  - A MEG Study
• Kim Gokoffski, MD, PhD - Electric Fields Direct Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Growth by Modulating GTPase Signaling

2017

• Victoria Pelak, MD - Retinal OCT in Alzheimer Disease: The relationship of Amyloid, Cortical Volumes, and visual fields

2015

• Hong Jiang, MD, PhD - Retinal microvascular alteration as a possible biomarker in Alzheimer’s disease

2014

• Beau Bruce, MD, MS - Non-mydriatic ocular fundus photography for the acute risk stratification of patients with transient ischemic attack and minor stroke

2013

• Byron J. Lam, MD - Obesity and Spinal Canal Compliance in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

2012

• Y. Joyce Liao MD, PhD - Stat1 Pathway Insuffciency as a Mediator for Giant Cell Arteritis Pathogenesis

2011

• Steven Roth, MD - Mechanisms of Perioperative Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

2009

• Prem S. Subramanian, MD, PhD - Pilot Study to Measure Diplopic Fields and the Correlation of Diplopic Field Characteristics with Visual Function Quality

2008

• Kimberly Cockerham, MD, FACS - Thyroid Eye Disease Clinical Manifestations Measurements: Comparing Clinical Examination with Laboratory Values of Thyroid Antibodies and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen, MD - Intraocular Injection of Growth Factors to Enhance Differentiation of Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells Following Ischemic Injury

2007

• Deborah M. Grzybowski, MD, PhD - An in-vitro model of CSF outflow through the arachnoid membrane for IIH