Awards
NEI Investigator Hikosaka Awarded Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
Dr. Okihide Hikosaka, senior investigator at the National Eye Institute (NEI) Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, is a recipient of the 2018 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience...
NIH vision researcher T. Michael Redmond recognized with Champalimaud Vision Award
Vision researcher, T. Michael Redmond, Ph.D., chief of the National Eye Institute (NEI) Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, is a recipient of the 2018 António Champalimaud Vision Award for foundational science discoveries about the...
Knights Templar Eye Foundation awards research grant to NEI scientist
National Eye Institute (NEI) Postdoctoral Fellow Aman George, Ph.D., has received a $65,000 grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation to identify new drug treatments for vision impairment in children with a type of albinism. George is a...
New Eye Health Awards Program Spurs Local Communities to Action
The National Eye Institute (NEI) has announced the recipients of the first Healthy Vision 2010 Community Awards. These awards will provide funding for community-based eye health education and promotion programs that will bring sight-saving...
NEI Names 2011 Healthy Vision Community Awards Recipients
Bethesda, MD – Working in Appalachia and Harlem, serving toddlers and seniors, the 2011 Healthy Vision Community Awards (HVCA) winners are committed to making eye health and vision priorities in their communities. HVCA, sponsored by the National...
NEI Grantee Receives $750,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award
Kang Zhang, M.D. Ph.D., an NEI grantee and a member of the eyeGENE committee, was recently awarded a prestigious Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research. The $750,000 award is for a five-...
NEI Neuroscientist Robert H. Wurtz, Ph.D., Awarded Gruber Neuroscience Prize
The National Eye Institute’s Robert H. Wurtz, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2010 Neuroscience Prize from The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for his pioneering work in establishing and advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience. He is being...
NEI Scientist Receives Alcon Award
Dr. Anand Swaroop, chief, Laboratory of Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair (N-NRL), joins a group of select scientists whom the Alcon Research Institute (ARI) regards as “outstanding, internationally...
NEI Grantee Pawan Sinha, Ph.D. Receives Presidential Award
Dr. Pawan Sinha has been selected by the White House to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Dr. Sinah is a professor of vision and computational neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive...