ESFA GRANTS FY2007-2008
EDUCATION
Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Braille Printer for Vision-impaired Theatre Patrons – $3,174.
Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation: R and R/ Retina and Rehabilitation Conference – $7,500.
McWane Center: Seniors InSight Educational Project – $10,000.
Media for Health, Inc.: BODYLOVE Program Dissemination Project – Continuation award of $10,000.
UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Core Support of Educational Operations – Continuation award of $1,353,000 over three years.
INDIGENT PATIENT CARE
Birmingham Health Care: Indigent Eye Glasses Program – Continuation award of $7,500.
Cahaba Valley Health Care:Vision Program Operational Support – Continuation award of $15,000.
Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital: Indigent Care – Continuation award of $400,000.
Impact: An Alabama Student Service Initiative: Focus First Initiative Operating Support – Continuation award of $20,000.
Liz Moore Low Vision Center:Assistive Devices for Low Income Consumers – $5,000.
Poarch Band of Creek Indians:Eye Care for Medically Indigent – $14,400.
SightSavers Of Alabama:Children's Eye Care Network – Continuation award of $130,000.
UAB School of Optometry:Indigent Care – $15,000.
NON-INDIGENT PATIENT CARE
Alabama Lions Sight Conservation Association: Individual Involvement Initiative – $50,000 over two years as challenge to members.
Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation:Vision Rehabilitation Program Startup – Continuation award of $40,000.
EyeCare Alabama:EyeCare Diabetes Outreach Project and Challenge Grant –Continuation award of $45,000 over two years as challenge to members.
Lakeshore Foundation:Visually-Impaired Sports and Education Camp – $7,500.
UAB Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation: Operating Support (Dr. Dawn DeCarlo) – Continuation award of $65,000.
UAB School of Optometry: Preschool Peepers Program (Dr. Wendy Marsh-Tootle) – $20,000.
United Cerebral Palsy Greater Birmingham: Comprehensive Health and Wellness Center for Persons with Severe Disabilities – Continuation award of $10,000.
RESEARCH: Operating Support/Endowment/Recruitment/Capital/Building/Equipment
UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Core Support of Research Operations – Continuation award of $1,947,000 over three years.
UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Basic Research Equipment – $63,320.
UAB Department of Ophthalmology (Cynthia Owsley, PhD): Clinical Vision Research Unit – Continuation award of $250,000 over two years.
UAB School of Optometry: Operation Support for the Center for Development of Functional Imaging (CDFI) – Continuation award of $100,000.
UAB School of Optometry: Funding for a Fullband RF Channel Amplifier for the CDFI – $32,000.
RESEARCH: Investigator Grants
Stephen Barnes, PhD, UAB Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology: Estrogen-mediated Regulation of the Expression and Distribution of the Human aA-crystallin lens protein – $143,383 over two years.
Dawn DeCarlo, OD, UAB Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation: Predictors of Successful Optical Rehabilitation in Age-Related Maculopathy – $79,828 over two years.
Christopher Girkin, MD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology:Development of a Tree Shrew Model for the Study of the Role of the Lamina Cribrosa in Development and Progression of Glaucoma – $77,850.
Alecia K. Gross, PhD, UAB Department of Vision Sciences: Molecular Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Membrane Biogenesis and Rhodopsin-Mediated Retinal Degenerations – $143,385 over two years.
Gerald McGwin, Jr., PhD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Protective Eyewear and Work-Related Eye Injury: A Case-Crossover Study - $111,086 over two years.
Cynthia Owsley, PhD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Pivotal Validation Trial of the Adapt Dx – $136,994 over two years.
Steven J. Pittler, PhD, UAB Department of Vision Sciences:Development of a Novel Drug-Based Molecular Therapy for a Class of Hereditary Retinal Degeneration – $149,971 over two years.
Russell W. Read, MD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Role of Complement Anaphylatoxin Receptors in Experimental Autoimmune Uveitis – $156,541 over two years.