Research to Prevent Blindness-Supported Researchers Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’s Audacious Goals Initiative
Ten researchers who have been supported by RPB will be co-principal investigators on five innovative projects just announced by the National Eye Institute (NEI) as part of its Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI) for Regenerative Medicine. In this latest AGI effort, the five multi-disciplinary teams will develop new disease models for a range of eye conditions. This AGI model-development effort seeks to catalyze new, regenerative treatments – such as cell- and gene-based therapies -- for such conditions as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.
The two researchers comprising the Developing Cone-Dominant Retinal Disease Models as a Resource for Translational Vision Research team both had RPB Career Development Awards (CDAs). The majority of team members on two other teams, Retinal Ganglion Cell Replacement in Optic Neuropathies and Retinal Ganglion Cell Replacement in Clinically Relevant Models of Optic Neuropathy, received earlier RPB funding. Many of these scientists were CDA recipients as well...