The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. is pleased to announce for 2019, four new 3-year research grants were awarded totaling $960,000 to Christian Burgess, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School; Ross Collery, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.; Jamie Berta Spangler, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Santani Teng, PhD, Associate Scientist (Pendina), The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. The Foundation also awarded a one-time grant for $100,000 to Leah Byrne, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh.

Congratulations to all our award recipients.

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. is pleased to announce for 2018, three new 3-year research grants were awarded totaling $720,000 to Cagri Besirli, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan; David Myung, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University Medical Center; Jillian Pearring, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan. The Foundation also awarded a one-time grant for $100,000 to Raunak Sinha, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Congratulations to all our award recipients.

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. is pleased to announce for 2017, three new 3-year research grants were awarded totaling $720,000 to Alan Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular, Harvard Medical School; Xin Duan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco; Anirvan Nandy, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Neurobiology, Yale University. The Foundation also awarded a one-time grant for $100,000 to Sui Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Congratulations to all our award recipients.

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. is pleased to announce for 2016, three new 3-year research grants were awarded totaling $720,000 to Leo Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Harvard University; Rajesh Rao, MD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Michigan; Jason Shepherd, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine. The Foundation also awarded a one-time grant for $100,000 to Kira Poskanzer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco.

Congratulations to all our award recipients.

The E.Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. is pleased to announce for 2015, four new research grants were awarded totaling $960,000 to Damon Clark, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular Development Biology, Yale University; Evan Feinberg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, UCSF; Yvonne Ou, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSF; and Glenn Yiu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, UC Davis. Congratulations to all our award recipients.

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded four new research grants totaling $960,000 to Yang Sun, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Indiana University; Derek S. Welsbie, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Medical School; Bart G. Borghuis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology at University of Louisville; and Felice A. Dunn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology at University of California, San Francisco. In addition at year-end 2014 the Foundation awarded a one-time $100,000 grant to In-Jung Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Yale University School of Medicine.  Congratulations to all our new award recipients!

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded three new grants totaling $720,000 to Jeremy N. Kay, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Opthalmology, Duke University Eye Center; Sujata Rao, PhD, Assistant Staff, Ophthalmic Research, Cleveland Clinic; and Wei Wei, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology at University of Chicago.

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded two new grants totaling $480,000 to Kevin K. Park, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; and Jonathan Sears, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute.

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded a grant totaling $240,000 to Yingbin Fu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah. More information about Dr. Fu is available in Grant Recipients section.

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded two more grants totaling $480,000 to Michael R. Taylor, PhD, Assistant Member, Chemical Biology & Therapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Jun Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the John A. Moran Center, University of Utah School of Medicine.