Selected Grants
Defining the underlying causes of retinal degeneration in CRB1 disease
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc · 2024 - 2029Cellular and Molecular Dynamics of Retinal Microglial in the Context of Photoreceptor Degeneration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029Blink, Lacrimation, and Nociception: Precision Mapping and Integrated Atlas Generation of Corneal Trigeminal Afferents in Mice and Humans
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms that Contribute to Ocular Surface Disease during Severe Allergic Inflammation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2026Paradigms of maintaining anterior segment homeostasis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas Jefferson University · 2023 - 2026Gut-brain dysfunction following combined prenatal stressors: relevance for autism
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2021 - 2026Role of Tissue Resident Macrophages in the Conventional Outflow Function
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2025Characterization of the Immune Cell Response to Topical Glaucoma Medications
ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Glaucoma Society · 2023 - 2025Basic Immunology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Local regulation and deletion of T cells to induce tolerance and establish long-term survival of high-risk corneal transplants
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Miami · 2023 - 2023Immune Mechanisms in Ocular Graft versus Host Disease
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023Regulation of inflammation and lipid homeostasis by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in age-related macular degeneration
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023Macrophage-Nerve Interactions in Neurotrophic Keratitis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc. · 2020 - 2022Dompe IIR
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by DOMPE, s.p.a. · 2019 - 2022Understanding the roles of ectosomes and the associated microglial response in photoreceptor degeneration
ResearchMentor · Awarded by Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc. · 2021 - 2022Conjunctival Goblet Cell Mucin Secretion in Inflammation and its Resolution
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Schepens Eye Research Institute · 2019 - 2021The Role of Macrophages in Conventional Outflow Homeostasis
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by American Glaucoma Society · 2020 - 2021Immunophenotyping the effect of Xiidra treatment in the inflammatory dry eye disease setting with underlying meibomian gland dysfunction
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 2018 - 2020Innate immunity, lipoproteins and AMD progression
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019LXR as a novel therapeutic target in diabetic retinopathy
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Alabama at Birmingham · 2017 - 2019Monocytes in Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019Role of bona fide microglia in retinal degeneration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2017 - 2019RPB: 2014 Nelson Trust Award
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc. · 2014 - 2019Evaluation of the effects of topically administered IL-17 antagonist compound on ocular allergy parameters in the severe allergic eye disease (AED) mouse model
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Allergan, Inc. · 2016 - 2019Macrophages and Treatment-Resistant NVAMD
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2019Conjunctival Goblet Cell Mucin Secretion in Inflammation and its Resolution
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Schepens Eye Research Institute · 2014 - 2018Novel Small Molecule Macrophage Inhibitors for the Treatment of Retinal Diseases
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Eyedesis Biosciences LLC · 2017 - 2018The role of a macrophage chemotactic factor in AMD
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2015 - 2017Examining the role of IFN-g+IL-17+ pathogenic Th17 cells in severe ocular allergy
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2017LXR as a novel therapeutic target in diabetic retinopathy
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by The Trustees of Indiana University · 2015 - 2017Macrophages Drive Neovascular Remodeling in NVAMD
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2014 - 2016Bone marrow neuropathy drives diabetic retinopathy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Trustees of Indiana University · 2013 - 2016Neuroinflammation: the role of lymphocytes in glaucoma
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2014 - 2016Molecular Mechanisms of Corneal Recurrent Erosion Formation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The George Washington University · 2013 - 2015External Relationships
- Piximune ( formerly Bex Vision, Inc.)
- Roche
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