Selected Grants
Swept Source (SS-) OCT system for Ex-Vivo Imaging, and specialized human postmortem full tissue sample package preparation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Janssen Research & Development, LLC · 2024 - 2028Medical Scientist Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2022 - 2027Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2027Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2021 - 2026CFHR siRNAs in Cfh het mice
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals · 2025 - 2025Complement factor H modulates lipoprotein clearance in AMD
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Genetic and Genomics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Preclinical Testing of Complement Factor H Gene Augmentation Therapy to Treat Dry AMD
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc · 2022 - 2025Stimulation of fatty acid oxidation to diminish drusen
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Washington · 2023 - 2024RPE Exosomes in Age-related Macular Degeneration
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2024The Role of RPE-derived Exosomes in Deposit Formation and ECM Modulation
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2022RPE Trophic Activity for Retinal Protection
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Arizona · 2017 - 2022HDL - a therapeutic target for age related macular degeneration.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Edward N. & Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation · 2019 - 2021Prevention of Early/Intermediate AMD using Anti-C5 Immunotherapy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc. · 2018 - 2020Dose range finding study for AAV8.CBA.humanFH vectors in CFH-deficient Mice
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Aevitas Therapeutics, Inc. · 2019 - 2020Genetics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1979 - 2020Testing the effect of a CFH agonistic monoclonal PEG-Fab
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Gemini Therapeutics · 2020 - 2020Innate immunity, lipoproteins and AMD progression
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019Gemini Therapeutics, Inc.- SRA
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Gemini Therapeutics · 2018 - 2018The Role of Exosomes in Dry AMD
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2015 - 2018Regulation of Sub-RPE Deposit Formation in AMD by Local and Systemic Complement Factor H
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc · 2015 - 2018Immunohistochemistry (IHC) of Photothermal and Photomechanical Laser Lesions in the Retina to Support the BSELL Project
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by TASC, Inc. · 2015 - 2016Targeting Amyloid beta for the treatment of dry Age-related Macular Degeneration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd · 2015 - 2015Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics Conference
ConferenceMember, Planning Committee · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2015Complement and Pathogenic Mechanisms of AMD
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2015A non-canonical role for b-secretase in AMD
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Trustees of Indiana University · 2013 - 2014Candidate Genes for Primary Open Angle Glaucoma
ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2012The Molecular Basis of Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2009Proteome Map of the Photoreceptor Cell
ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2009Murine AMD Model Based on Constellation of Known Human AMD Risk Factors
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2008Characterization of Genes in Normal and AMD Retinas
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1995 - 2006Characterization of Genes in Normal and AMD Retinas
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1995 - 2001External Relationships
- 4D Molecular Therapeutics
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Alnylam Pharmaceutical, Inc.
- Character Biosciences
- Cognition Therapeutics, Inc.
- Foundation Fighting Blindness, Columbia, MD
- Perfuse Therapeutics
- Retinal degeneration (RD) Fund
- Sanofi
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