The researchers and their awards are:
- Yang Sun, MD, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, received $1,023,530 from the National Eye Institute to study congenital glaucoma.
- Brian Samuels, MD, PhD, also an assistant professor of ophthalmology, received $107,505 from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s 2012-13 Young Investigator Training Awards and Predoctoral Training Awards. Dr. Samuels’ research focuses on the role of the central nervous system and the progression of glaucoma.
- Rajashekhar Gangaraju, PhD, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and physiology, received $105,507 from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s 2012-13 Young Investigator Training Award to establish translational research in regenerative stem cell therapies in Indiana. Dr. Gangaraju also received $50,000 from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation, plus an additional $10,000 from the Cryptic Mason’s Medical Research Foundation and Knights Templar Eye Foundation of Wisconsin for his research involving stem cell treatments for blindness in children.
“This funding is crucial to allow our researchers to continue their work on glaucoma and other potentially blinding eye diseases,” said Louis B. Cantor, MD, chairman of the department of ophthalmology at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute, in the release. “We’re particularly thrilled with the National Eye Institute funding in excess of $1 million for Dr. Sun’s research. We could not do this without support from CTSI and Knights Templar Eye Foundation, as both groups have provided research funding for our faculty in the past.”
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