The NANOS Pilot Research Grant provides one‑year funding to help investigators develop preliminary data for future major grant applications. This program supports innovative, well‑justified research that drives progress in neuro‑ophthalmology.

Listed below are all past recipients of this award.

2026

• TBA

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