The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology- Recipient history

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Recipient history

With the help of generous support from our funding partners the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research has established numerous awards and fellowships.

ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician-Scientist Research Awards
Collaborative Research Fellowships
Developing Country Eye Researcher Travel Fellowships
Dr. David L. Epstein Award
Genentech Age-related Macular Degeneration Fellowships
Merck Innovative Ophthalmology Research Awards
Oberdorfer Award in Low Vision Research
Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Awards
Vistakon Dry Eye Fellowships
Dr. Roger Vogel Award for Pharmaceutical Research
Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award

ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician Scientist Research Awards

Maria Cristina Malloci Rachel L. Redfern Dimitra Skondra, MD Abraham Solomon, MD Stephen H. Tsang, MD, PhD	2006
Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen, MD Andras M. Komaromy, DVM, PhD Rainer A. Leitgeb, PhD Malin Malmsjo Takahiro Suzuki	2007
Jamie Craig, MD, PhD Yoshio Hirano, MD Ula Jurkunas, MD Wensheng Li, MD Jennifer Sun, MD, MPH	2008
Masayuki Ashikari, MD, PhD Michael V. Boland, MD, PhD Yu-Guang He, MD Alessandro Iannaccone, MD Nobuyoshi Kitaichi, MD	2009
Joshua Bartoe, DVM Kathryn E. Bollinger, MD, PhD Michael A. Grassi, MD Alon Kahana, MD, PhD Christopher K.S. Leung, MD	2010
J. Martin Heur, MD, PhD Scott D. Lawrence, MD Mark E. Pennesi, MD, PhD Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH	2011
Faizah Bhatti, MD, MS Hyewon Chung, MD, PhD Edgar Espana, MD Holly Hindman, MD Vassiliki Poulaki, MD	2012
Ying-Ting Chen, MD Maurizio Mete, MD Ranjan Rajendram, MD, FRCOphth Brian C. Samuels, MD, PhD Qisheng You, MD	2013
Toshihide Kurihara, MD, PhD Martin Stephan Spitzer, MD Hiroshi Tanaka, MD Reo Yasuma, MD	2014
Walid Abdallah, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCS Peng Chen, PHD Dawn A. Sim, FRCOphth Paul Yang, MD, PhD	2015
Daniel Kampik, MD Allen O. Eghrari, MD Kia M. Washington, MD Amir H. Hariri, MD Eleonora M. Lad, MD PhD	2016
Aaron Y. Lee MD, MSCI Junyeop Lee, MD, PhD Marina Mesquida, MD, MSc, PhD Bilal Haj Najeeb, MD, FEBO	2017

Collaborative Research Fellowships

Ruojin Ren, PhD Afsun Sahin, MD	China Turkey	2009
Karina Mazzitello, MD Gustavo Melo, MD	Argentina Brazil	2010
Anna Enzsoly, MD Delu Song, MD	Hungary China	2011
Soumyava Basu, MS Paula Schaiquevich, PhD Geeta K. Vemuganti, DNB, FAMS, MD Shi-Jun Weng, PhD	India Argentina India China	2013
Lana D. L. Datuashvili, MD Tapas R. Padhi, MS	Georgia India	2014
Damian Dorfman, MD Robert G. Tripon, MD	Argentina Romania	2015
Georgi Gergiev, PhD Nallely Ramos Betancourt	Bulgaria Mexico	2016

Developing Country Eye Researcher Travel Fellowships

Bimbo Ashaye, MD Charbel Bouchacra AistÄ— DamijonaitytÄ— Nardemar Gallow Michael Gyasi Constantinos Kakoulidis, MUDr Adun Ogunro, MD, FWACS Vitaly V. Potyomkin, MD Elena Takhchidi Susan E. I. Williams, MBBCh, FCOpth, FRCSEd Ognjen ZrinsÄak Lina BridziÅ«tÄ— ZykeviÄienÄ—	Nigeria Saudi Arabia Lithuania South Africa Ghana Slovakia Nigeria Russia Russia South Africa Croatia Lithuania	2008
Akinfe Akinwale Adekunle, MD MSC DWACS ACCP Isabel Alexandre, MD PhD Rajani Ravindra Battu, MD S. R. Kaid Johar, PhD Hemant Kana, MD Izabella Karska-Basta, MD Aubrey Makgotloe, MD Kristina MalysÌ†ko, MD Anna Markiewicz, MD Karina Craveiro Pinto Mascarenhas, MD Nataliya V. Maychuk, MD PhD Syntia Nusanti, MD Paul Peter Nyaluke, MD MMed Jacqueline Ramke, BAppSc MPH MHSM Josefa Piedade Jesus Ramos, MD Francisco Balu Sibo, MD Alexander A. Verzin, MD, PhD Anthony Zaborowski, MBBCh, FCOphth	Nigeria Angola India India South Africa Poland South Africa Lithuania Poland Cape Verde Russia Indonesia Tanzania Timor-Leste Cape Verde Angola Russia South Africa	2009
Sivagnanam Ananthi M. Carolina Aravena Nuria MarÃa AsunciÃ³n de ZavalÃa Mariya Dikovskaya, MD Patricia Domsa HÃ©lida Marisa Lima de Pina Fernandes Olufemi Oderinlo Olusola Oluyinka Olawoye, MD Liga Radecka, MD Tri Rahayu, MD, FIACLE Mayda Lizeth RamÃrez LÃ³pez, PhD Rita Sitorus Raja Pandian Siva Genesa Karthikeyan Darshana Soma, MD Raba Thapa, MD	India Chile Argentina Russia Hungary Cape Verde Nigeria Nigeria Latvia Indonesia Mexico Indonesia India South Africa Nepal	2010
Carolina Alarcon Arciniegas, MD Ekaterina Chikun Sujata Das, MBBS, FRCS Roseline E. Duke, MBBCH, FWACS, MSc Paromita Dutta, MD Anna Enzsoly, MD Georgi Asenov Georgiev, PhD Mona Khurana, MS, MBBS Anna Helena Lekawa-Ilczuk, MD, PhD Wayne Jeremy Marais, MB, ChB, MMed Farah Ouechtati Paula Schaiquevich, PhD Claudio M. Zuniga, MD, MSc, PhD	Columbia Russia India Nigeria India Hungary Bulgaria India Poland South Africa Tunisia Argentina Chile	2011
Patimat Arbukhanova Hassan Dawood Alli, MBBCh, FCOphthSA, Mmed Lalan Kumar Arya Melina P. Bordone Vania Castro, MD Alexandru Dan Dieaconescu, MD Ngoy Janvier Kilangalanga, MD Emilio Ramos Moreira, MD Prasanthi Namburi Indira Paudyal, MD Mohammadreza Peyman, MD, MMed Andrea Portilla Demichelis, MD Yonas Tilahun, MD	Russia South Africa India Argentina Peru Romania D.R. Congo Cabo Verde India Nepal Malaysia Mexico Ethiopia	2012
Mariana Ingolotti, MD Fidan Aghayeva, MD Sunita Mohan, MD, MBBS Petros Cyrus Kayange, MBBS, MMed. Ophth. Maria Shurygina, PhD Nagib Du Toit, MBChB, DipOphth, FCOphth, FRCS(Ed), Mmed Lina Siaudvytyte, MS Nithya Velusamy, BSc, MSc Sushil Kumar Dubey, MSc, PhD	Argentina Azerbaijan India Malawi Russia South Africa Lithuania India India	2013
Olga Borodovitsyna, MD Irmante Derkac, MD Jorge Luis Bustillo Gonzalez, MD Karen Koetsie, BSc, MBChB, MMed, FCOphth Grazielly Oliveira, MD Jelena Potic, MD Daniela Alejandra Quinteros, PhD Sahebaan Sabharwal, MBBS Bibhuti B. Saikia, MSc Mongkol Tadarati, MD	Russia Lithuanian Cuba South Africa Brazil Serbia Argentina India India Thailand	2014
Robert Gabriel Tripon, MD, MSc Didem Turgut Cosan, PhD Maria Soledad Ormaechea, MD Liubou Kazacheuskaya, MD Yavische Reddy, MBChB Ilia Popov, MD Akanksha Prasad, MBBS, DNB	Romania Turkey Argentina Republic of Belarus Republic of South Africa Russian Federation India	2015
Peter Chao, MD Nguyen Ngan Ha, MD Terezinha Medeiros GonÃ§alves de Loureiro, MA Mostafa Tarek Mohamed Marzouk, MBChB John Mattia, DO Simanga Msutwana, MBChB Eugene Appenteng Osae, OD MarÃa Constanza Paz, PhD Omar Salamanca, MS Matthew Jusu Vandy, MD, DO, MSc, PGD Amra NadareviÄ‡ VodenÄareviÄ‡, MD	Philippines Vietnam Brazil Egypt Sierra Leone South Africa Ghana Argentina Colombia Sierra Leone Bosnia	2016
Koffi Didier Ayena, MD Basma Baccouche, MRes Kasturi Bhattacharjee, MD, FRCS Moira Gandiwa, MBBS Meha Kabra, MSc Hashim Ali Khan, OD, FAAO Simanga Msutwana, MBChB Nikhil Sahajpal, BPharm, MPharm Angelane Santos, MD	Togo Tunisia India Malawi India Pakistan South Africa India Philippines	2017

Dr. David L. Epstein Award

Jonathan G. Crowston, MBBS, FRCOphth, FRANZCO, PhD	2016
David Huang, MD, PhD, FARVO	2017

Genentech Age-related Macular Degeneration Fellowships

Balamurali K. Ambati, MD, PhD Stephen H. Tsang, MD, PhD	2011
Venkata R.M. Chavali, MSc, PhD Helder A.M.B. Andre, PharmD, PhD	2012
Matthew Campbell, PhD Cristhian J. Ildefonso, PhD	2013
Scott Adrian Smemo, PhD Felicity Jane De Cogan, MChem, PhD	2014
Sarah Louise Doyle, BA, PhD Katie Leigh Pennington, BS, MS, PhD	2015
Glenn C. Yiu, MD, PhD Petr Baranov, MD, PhD	2016

Merck Innovative Ophthalmology Research Awards

Chung-Jung Chiu, PhD Mike Karl, MD Hyun Woong Kim, MD, PhD Wolf Lagreze, MD	1st Award 1st Award 2nd Award 2nd Award	2009
Deepak Lamba, MBBS, PhD Mihaela G. Gadjeva, PhD Jason S. Meyer, PhD Cintia De Paiva, MD Long V. Ly, MD	1st Award 1st Award 2nd Award 2nd Award 2nd Award	2011
William A. Beltran, DVM, PhD Shannon Elizabeth Boye, PhD Li Jiang, MD, PhD	1st Award 2nd Award 2nd Award	2013
Thomas Vincent Johnson, MD PhD Giulio Ferrari, MD Joseph B. Ciolino, MD Andrew J. Tatham, FRCOphth, FRCSEd, FEBO Terry G. Coursey, PhD Paraskevi Evi Kolovou, MD	1st Award 1st Award 2nd Award 2nd Award 2nd Award 2nd Award	2015

Oberdorfer Award in Low Vision Research

Brian A. Wandell, PhD	2012
Gregg C. Vanderheiden, PhD	2013
David Rein, PhD	2014
Pawan Sinha, PhD	2015
Denis Pelli, PhD	2016
Gary S. Rubin, PhD, FARVO	2017

Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Awards

Robin R. Ali, PhD Keith R. Martin, MD, FRCOphth Shannath L. Merbs, MD, PhD	2010
Jayakrishna Ambati, MD Gabriel Sosne, MD	2011
Brian P. Brooks, MD, PhD Noriko Koizumi, MD, PhD Uday B. Kompella, PhD, FARVO Quan Dong Nguyen, MD, MSc	2012
Anneke I. Den Hollander, PhD Robert E. MacLaren, DPhil, FRCS Stephen H. Tsang, MD, PhD	2013
Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD Farhad Hafezi, MD, PhD Hendrik P.N. Scholl, MD, MA	2014
Andras M. Komaromy, DVM, PhD Akiko Maeda, MD, PhD Trevor J. McGill, PhD	2015
Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD Kwoon Y. Wong, PhD William A. Beltran, DVM, PhD, DipECVO	2016
Ula V. Jurkunas, MD Stephen Jae Kim, MD Sina Farsiu, MD, PhD	2017

Vistakon Contact Lens and Dry Eye Fellowships

Juan Ding, PhD Andrea Petznick, PhD	2011
Jerome Gabriel Mauris, PhD Geraint John Parfitt, BSc, PhD	2012
Christine Selhuber-Unkel, MSc, PhD	2014

Dr. Roger Vogel Award for Pharmaceutical Research

Naj Sharif, BSc, PhD	2014
Claudio Bucolo, PhD, FARVO	2015
P. Vasantha Rao, PhD	2016
Ashim K. Mitra, PhD	2017

Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD	2011
Ludwig M. Heindl, MD	2012
Malik Y. Kahook, MD	2013
Balamurali K. Ambati, MD, PhD	2014
Virginie Johanna Maria Verhoeven, MD	2015
Steven Yeh, MD	2016
No recipient named	2017