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  • CIHR Institute of Genetics RFA:

    The Institute of Genetics (IG) has pre-announced their big RFA entitled “From Genes to Proteins, Cells, Tissues and Patients”, focused on translating gene discovery to medicine. The IG alone is committing $9.2 million over a period of five years to this initiative! The FFB hopes to provide matching funds and partner with IG to enhance this strategic initiative. The overall objective of the RFA is to foster research that follows gene discovery or protein discovery.

    This is an Emerging Team Grant that will bring together teams in various locations, to focus on the study of genes, and their encoded proteins, that are associated with single gene disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP). It will also encourage applications on genes/proteins that have been strongly associated with genetically complex diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The value of the grants will be up to $500,000 annually for 5 years.

    The deadline for the Letter of Intent is October 1, 2008.


    For more information concerning this Strategic Initiative, please contact:

    Stephanie Robertson, Assistant Director, Ottawa Institute of Genetics
    Canadian Institutes of Health Research
    Telephone: 613-954-0533
    Fax: 613-954-1800
    Email: stephanie.robertson@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
    visit: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/36253.html

  • Steinbach 2009 ARVO Awardee

    Martin J. Steinbach has just been named as the 2009 Kupfer Awardee by the Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO). The award honours those who "have demonstrated distinguished public service on behalf of eye and vision research" (from the ARVO website). It is named for Carl Kupfer who served as the Director of the National Eye Institute of the US NIH, for 30 years. It will be presented to him at the ARVO meeting next May in Ft. Lauderdale.

 

  • Molday Receives UBC Award

    Robert Molday received the Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia

  • "Form and Function in Ocular Disease"
    a multidisciplinary clinical and basic science meeting hosted by the
    Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
    Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    September 26-27, 2008
    http://ophthalmology.medicine.dal.ca/

 

  • The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research recently
    honoured three vision researchers with awards. Congratulations to Drs.
    Ordan Lehmann, Sarah McFarlane and Yves Sauve.

 

  • A new endowed chair has been announced at the Hospital for Sick
    Children in Toronto.     Congratulations to Agnes Wong, MD, PhD, who holds
    the John and Melinda Thompson Chair in Vision Neurosciences.

 

  • If you wish to learn more about the activities of the National
    Coalition for Vision Health,     check out the Canadian Journal of
    Ophthalmology editorial written by its President, Dr. Calvin Breslin, and
    available at:
    http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cjo/cjo42-06.html

 

  • Eye Research Positions at
    Universitè de Montrèal, HMR Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont

Endowed Chair in Macular Degeneration Translational Research
Tenure Track Positions in Cell and Molecular Biology of Retinal and Optic Nerve Disease

 

  • The University of Toronto has a $17.25 million endowment for sponsoring vision health research (very loosely defined) graduate students. Since its inception in 2000, over 75 students have been given $2.6M in support of their thesis research. Topics have ranged from the molecular genetic basis of blinding eye diseases through higher-order studies of cognitive visual functioning. More information available at: http://vsrp.uhnres.utoronto.ca/

 

  • Twenty-Nine Canada Research Chairs in vision-related themes are listed at the Bulletin Board link. There are also six endowed chairs in Canada. This list can be updated by sending information to: mjs@yorku.ca

 

  • Two major meetings that Canadian vision scientists attend in large numbers are upcoming: ARVO (Assoc. for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology)and VSS (Vision Sciences Society). More information about each of the meetings is on their websites:
    http://www.arvo.org/
    http://www.visionsciences.org/

 

 

 

  • The Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology has been publishing scientific updates that may be of interest to readers of this webpage. The "Cyclops" column has been appearing since the December 2005 issue. Download the column, and other items of interest from http://www.eyesite.ca

 

  • Check Out Additional Funding Opportunities at the Foundation Fighting Blindness-Canada website: http://www.ffb.ca

 
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