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Funding for FY 2007-2008 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Research: Investigator Grants
Stephen Barnes, PhD, UAB Department of Pharmacology
and Toxicology - $143,383 over two years:
Estrogen-mediated Regulation of the Expression and
Distribution of the Human aA-crystallin lens protein
Dawn DeCarlo, OD, UAB Center for Low Vision
Rehabilitation - $79,828 over two years: Predictors
of Successful Optical Rehabilitation in Age-Related Maculopathy
Christopher Girkin, MD, UAB Department of
Ophthalmology - $77,850: Development of a Tree Shrew
Model for the Study of the Role of the Lamina Cribrosa in Development
and Progression of Glaucoma
Alecia K. Gross, PhD, UAB Department of Vision
Sciences - $143,385 over two years: Molecular
Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Membrane Biogenesis and Rhodopsin-Mediated
Retinal Degenerations
Gerald McGwin, Jr., PhD, UAB Department of
Ophthalmology - $111,086 over two years: Protective
Eyewear and Work-Related Eye Injury: A Case-Crossover Study
Cynthia
Oswley, PhD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology - $136,994 over two
years: Pivotal Validation Trial of the Adapt Dx
Steven J. Pittler, PhD, UAB Department of
Vision Sciences - $149,971 over two years: Development
of a Novel Drug-Based Molecular Therapy for a Class of Hereditary
Retinal Degeneration
Russell W. Read, MD, UAB Department of Ophthalmology
- $156,541 over two years: Role
of Complement Anaphylatoxin Receptors in Experimental Autoimmune
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