Esfa Grants Fy 2008-2009

ESFA GRANTS FY 2008-2009

PATIENT CARE - Indigent

Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind: Emergency TelecommunicationsProgram – $30,000.

Alabama Lions Sight Conservation Association: FTD machines for Mobile Screening – $14,040.

Cahaba Valley Health Care: Vision Program – $15,000 – continuation.

Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital: Indigent Care – $400,000 – continuation.

Impact Alabama:Focus First - $20,000 –continuation.

Liz Moore Low Vision Center: Assistive Devices for Low IncomeConsumers – $5,000.

Sight Savers America(formerly Sight Savers of Alabama): Children’s Eye Care Network – $100,000 and$45,000 – continuation.

UAB School of Optometry: Indigent Care – $15,000 – continuation.

PATIENT CARE – Non-Indigent

Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation: Vision Rehab Program – $40,000 – continuation.

Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation: SLO Equipment – $25,000.

Lakeshore Foundation: Operation Night Vision Recreation and SportClinic for Military Personnel with Severe Eye Injuries – $48,900 – continuation.

UAB Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation: Operating Support – $65,000 –continuation.

UAB School of Optometry: Preschool Peepers – $34,473 – continuation.

United Cerebral Palsy:Health and Wellness Center – $10,000 – continuation.

EDUCATION - Consumer

Media for Health: BODYLOVE Program Dissemination Project – $10,000 – Continuation.

EDUCATION – Professional Training

UAB School of Education: Rural Alabama Professional Training forTeachers of the Blind and Visually Impaired – $120,000 over two years –continuation.

RESEARCH: ENDOWMENT, RECRUITMENT, EQUIPMENT, OPERATING SUPPORT,CAPITAL PROJECTS

UAB Center for Low Vision Rehab: Director Support – $77,625 –continuation.

UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Startup Support for a TranslationalScientist – $372,331 over three years.

UAB School of Optometry Center for the Development of Functional Imaging: Operation Support – $100,000 –continuation.

UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Basic Research Equipment – $58,075.

Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital: Equipment and Maintenance – $495,000.

INVESTIGATOR-LED RESEARCH

Shu-Zhen Wang, PhD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology: DerivingPhotoreceptors from RPE for Transplantation – $205,359 over three years.

Cynthia Owsley, PhD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology: Randomized Community-based study to demonstrate the preliminary short-termresponsiveness of an eye health education intervention promoting theannual, comprehensive eye examinations among older African Americans – $50,000.

Xincheng Yao, PhD, UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering:Development of a Microlens Array Confocal Ophthalmoscope – $150,000over three years.

Om Srivastava, PhD, UAB Department of Vision Sciences: Potential Roleof Soy Isolavones as antioxidant in Prevention/Delay of Age-RelatedCataract – $140,000 over two years.

Paul Gamlin, PhD, UAB Department of Vision Sciences: Curing Blindnessin Primates: Direct Light Activation of Retinal Ganglion Cells – $215,324over two years.