The National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research

National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research

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NAEVR Announces Release of
The Silver Book: Vision Loss

NAEVR Supports World Glaucoma Day

NAEVR Participates in White House Conference on Aging

NAEVR to Host Defense Research Briefing at ARVO 2010 Annual Meeting.
To read about the briefing at ARVO 2009, click here.

Vision Researchers Receive at Least $230M from ARRA/DOD Funding
NEI Awards 333 ARRA Grants. Click Here for More Information

NAEVR Submits NIH Listens Comments to Dr. Collins Citing Concerns About Future NIH/NEI Funding and Clustering of Institutes/Maintaining the NEI Budget Line

NAEVR Works with Blinded Veterans Association To Seek Congressional Support for FY2011 Peer Reviewed Medical Research-Vision Funding at $10 Million

NEI Releases Statement Recognizing Third World Glaucoma Week

DHHS Secretary Sebelius Announces New NIH/FDA Collaboration To Support Efforts in Translational and Regulatory Science

VSO Independent Budget Echoes NAEVR's Request Urging Congress to Fund Extramural Peer-Reviewed Vision Research at $10 Million in FY2011 Defense Appropriations

NAEVR Expresses Concern Over President Obama's Proposed FY2011 NIH/NEI Funding Levels and Urges Congress to Improve Upon These Numbers

President Issues FY2011 Budget Proposing 3.2 Percent Increase in NIH Funding, 2.4 Percent Increase in NEI Funding, Per NEI Congressional Justification

NAEVR Releases FY2011 Funding Requests that Include $35 Billion for NIH and $10 Million for Extramural Peer-Reviewed Vision Research in Defense Appropriations

AEVR’s Decade of Vision 2010-2020 Initiative Announces First-Quarter 2010 Congressional Briefings on Defense-Related Vision Research and Glaucoma

NAEVR Thanks Congress for Maintaining the Vision Line Item in FY2010 Defense Appropriations But Expresses Concern About Its Funding Level

Congress Passes FY2010 Defense Appropriations Bill; Dedicated Peer-Reviewed Vision Research Program is Retained but Funding Level is Cut

NAEVR Thanks Congress for $18.5 Million Increase in NEI Funding That, with $26.7 Million ARRA Balance, Yields $45 Million More for Vision Research in FY2010

NEI Posts Top Five Stories of 2009

Congressional Conferees Approve an Omnibus Spending Package that Includes FY2010 Funding Increases for NIH, NEI

FY2009 Increase of at Least $230 Million in NIH and Defense Vision Funding Emphasizes Research Quality, Public Health Need, and Impact of NAEVR Advocacy

NAEVR Releases Fall 2009 Contributor Report

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	The U.S. Congress should adequately fund eye and vision research at the NEI. Eye and vision disease is now at epidemic proportions. As of the year 2000 census, more than 119 million Americans age 40+ were at risk from age-related eye disease, such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataracts. More than 35 million Americans age 40+ currently experience these diseases, in addition to the 3.4 million who are blind, and this number is expected to grow to 50 million by the year 2020. A growing Hispanic and African American population is experiencing a disproportionate incidence of glaucoma and cataracts. And, the epidemic of diabetes is increasing the onset of diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in individuals 25-74 years in age.

NEI 40th Anniversary and
AEVR Decade of Vision 2010-2020

Christopher Girkin, M.D., M.S.P.H.

Vision Community Unites to Observe World Glaucoma Week on Capitol Hill

Vision Research Meeting Battlefield Needs: Corneal Wound Sealing/Healing and Protection

TATRC on Track to Issue FY2009 Extramural Defense-Related Vision Research Awards by late First-Quarter 2010

In January 29 Advocacy Day, ARVO Members Among First to Request FY2011 NIH Funding at $35 Billion

AEVR Co-sponsors Capitol Hill Welcome Reception for NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins

Cong. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ, center) with Shigeru Kinoshita M.D., Ph.D. (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine/Japan, left) and ARVO President Nicholas Delamere, Ph.D. (University of Arizona, right)

ARVO Members Among First to Educate Congress about ARRA-Funded Research

Left to right: Jennifer Zeitzer (Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, FASEB), NAEVR Executive Director James Jorkasky, and David Moore (Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research/AAMC)

NAEVR Joins Research Means Hope.org in Calling for Robust NIH Funding at a National Medical Research Day Press Event

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	The NEI estimates that, currently, more than 38 million Americans age 40 and older experience blindness, low vision or an age-related eye disease such as AMD, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or cataracts. This is expected to grow to more than 50 million Americans by year 2020.

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