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Daniel Raphael Saban

Professor of Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology, Corneal Diseases

Selected Grants


Defining the underlying causes of retinal degeneration in CRB1 disease

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc · 2024 - 2029

Cellular and Molecular Dynamics of Retinal Microglial in the Context of Photoreceptor Degeneration

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Blink, 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 - 2027

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms that Contribute to Ocular Surface Disease during Severe Allergic Inflammation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2026

Paradigms of maintaining anterior segment homeostasis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas Jefferson University · 2023 - 2026

Gut-brain dysfunction following combined prenatal stressors: relevance for autism

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2021 - 2026

Role of Tissue Resident Macrophages in the Conventional Outflow Function

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2025

Characterization of the Immune Cell Response to Topical Glaucoma Medications

ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Glaucoma Society · 2023 - 2025

Basic Immunology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Immune Mechanisms in Ocular Graft versus Host Disease

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023

Regulation of inflammation and lipid homeostasis by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in age-related macular degeneration

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023

Macrophage-Nerve Interactions in Neurotrophic Keratitis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc. · 2020 - 2022

Dompe IIR

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by DOMPE, s.p.a. · 2019 - 2022

Understanding the roles of ectosomes and the associated microglial response in photoreceptor degeneration

ResearchMentor · Awarded by Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc. · 2021 - 2022

Conjunctival Goblet Cell Mucin Secretion in Inflammation and its Resolution

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Schepens Eye Research Institute · 2019 - 2021

The Role of Macrophages in Conventional Outflow Homeostasis

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by American Glaucoma Society · 2020 - 2021

Immunophenotyping 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 - 2020

Innate immunity, lipoproteins and AMD progression

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019

LXR as a novel therapeutic target in diabetic retinopathy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Alabama at Birmingham · 2017 - 2019

Monocytes in Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019

Role of bona fide microglia in retinal degeneration

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2017 - 2019

RPB: 2014 Nelson Trust Award

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc. · 2014 - 2019

Macrophages and Treatment-Resistant NVAMD

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2019

Conjunctival Goblet Cell Mucin Secretion in Inflammation and its Resolution

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Schepens Eye Research Institute · 2014 - 2018

Novel Small Molecule Macrophage Inhibitors for the Treatment of Retinal Diseases

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Eyedesis Biosciences LLC · 2017 - 2018

The role of a macrophage chemotactic factor in AMD

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2015 - 2017

Examining the role of IFN-g+IL-17+ pathogenic Th17 cells in severe ocular allergy

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2017

LXR as a novel therapeutic target in diabetic retinopathy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by The Trustees of Indiana University · 2015 - 2017

Macrophages Drive Neovascular Remodeling in NVAMD

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2014 - 2016

Bone marrow neuropathy drives diabetic retinopathy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Trustees of Indiana University · 2013 - 2016

Neuroinflammation: the role of lymphocytes in glaucoma

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by BrightFocus Foundation · 2014 - 2016

Molecular Mechanisms of Corneal Recurrent Erosion Formation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The George Washington University · 2013 - 2015

External Relationships


  • Piximune ( formerly Bex Vision, Inc.)
  • Roche

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