The National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research

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

NAEVR Announces Release of
The Silver Book®: Vision Loss
Volume II

NAEVR Supports World Glaucoma Week

NAEVR Participates in White House Conference on Aging

Sequester Update
NAEVR wishes to thank everyone who sent letters urging Congress to avoid the sequester. Although Congress has passed a final Fiscal Year 2013 appropriations bill with a $71 M NIH increase, it still imposes the 5.1% sequester cut on NIH and NEI. The same bill, however, funds the Vision Trauma Research Program at $10 M.

House Democratic Report on Impact Of Sequestration: NIH Budget Lowest Since FY2007 in Actual Dollars, Lowest Since FY2000 When Adjusted for Inflation

Chairman Harkin and Dr. Collins Describe “Perilous” and “Pivotal” Moments for NIH in Senate Hearing

NIH Releases FY2013 Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards

NIH Releases FY2013 Spending Plan, NEI Funded at $662 Million Net of Sequester Cut and Transfers

NIH Encourages Americans to Make Vision a Priority during Healthy Vision Month

NAEVR/AEVR Announces the Death of NAEVR/AEVR Founder and Former President Stephen Ryan, M.D.

NAEVR to Senate: Improve Upon the President's FY2014 Budget Request for the NEI, Which has No Growth and Jeopardizes Vision Research

President Issues FY2014 Budget Request with NIH Increase But No Net Growth in NEI Budget

NAEVR on President Obama's Proposed FY2014 Budget: Applauds NIH Budget Increase, Disappointed in No Growth in the NEI Budget

President Proposes A Multi-Year BRAIN Initiative with an Initial $100 Million in FY2014 Funding

NAEVR Releases Winter/Spring 2013 Contributor Report

NAEVR Announces Advocacy and Educational Opportunities at the 2013 ARVO Annual Meeting

NAEVR Reacts to H.R. 933 Which Finalizes FY2013 Funding

Congress Passes Continuing Resolution for Remainder of Fiscal Year 2013, Averting Possible Government Shutdown

NAEVR Releases FY2014 Funding Requests to Congress: $32 Billion for NIH and $730 Million for NEI, $10 Million for Peer Reviewed Vision Trauma Research

NAEVR and AEVR Boards Elect Peter McDonnell, M.D. As the Alliances' President

House Passes FY2013 Funding Bill: NIH/NEI Hit by Sequester, Vision Trauma Research Program Funding Increased to $10 M But Also Subject to Sequester

House Holds First Hearing of 2013 Focused on Research and Major Public Health Agencies Funded by the LHHS Appropriations Bill

NIH Sends Letter to Grantees Regarding Sequestration

NAEVR Joins Vision Community in Addressing Audacious Goals to Preserve and Restore Vision

NIH Issues Guidance on Sequestration Plans

VSOs/MSOs Support Increased Funding for Vision Trauma in Independent Budget and in a Letter to Congress

Senate Appropriators Question Administration About Sequester Impact; OMB Says NIH Research Jeopardized But Does Not Provide Details

AEVR Announces March 2013 Congressional Luncheon Briefings On Two Important Topics in Vision Research

NEI Announces Audacious Goals Initiative Winners

Reports Overwhelmingly Demonstrate Sequestration’s Negative Impact on the Economy

Director Francis Collins Discusses Sequester’s Risk to NIH Funding

Cong. Jack Kingston Comments on New Role as House LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chair

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Opponents of Administration’s Stem Cell Policy

Fiscal Cliff Legislation Delays Sequestration by Two Months; NAEVR Tracks Key Appropriators in the New Congress

DOD Announces FY2013 Assistive Technologies Research Award Program

NAEVR Releases Fall 2012 Contributor Report

President Signs Six-Month CR; OMB Issues Spending Guidance that Assumes NIH/NEI Funding at the FY2012 Level

Senate Passes Six-Month CR to Fund the Government in FY2013, Clearing Measure for White House Approval

AEVR’s Decade of Vision 2010-2020 Initiative Releases A Value of Defense-Related Vision Research Brochure

NIH Names Dr. Christopher Austin as NCATS Director at the Joint Initial Meeting of the NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board

OMB Releases Report on Impact of Sequestration: $2.5 Billion NIH Cut

Congress to Vote on a Six-Month CR to Fund the Government in FY2013

NIH Launches Contest for Audacious Goals in Vision Research

The Vision Community Announces Congressional Luncheon Briefings on Three Topics in Eye Disease Research and Prevention

Congress to Take Up Six-Month CR After the August Recess

House Democrats Express Concern About Sequestration to House and Senate Leadership

Harkin Report: Sequestration Cuts NIH by $2.4 Billion, NEI by $54.8 Million; Nondefense Community Rallies to Fight Sequestration

House Increases FY2013 VTRP Funding by $5 Million to $10 Million Total

House Bill Proposes Flat NIH Funding, No Cut to NEI Due to Transfer of AIDS Funding

Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research to Congress and Administration: Work Together to Avoid Devastating Impact of Sequestration

NAEVR Urges Congress to Avert Sequestration, Protect Core Government Functions Such As Support of Biomedical Research

DHHS to Cong. Markey: Sequestration Threatens Americans’ Health and Safety

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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.

NAEVR At the ARVO Annual Meeting

NAEVR Rallies for Medical Research Funding: “More Progress, More Hope, More Life”

DOD-Funded Researcher Studies the Impact of Primary Blast Injuries on the Eye

NAEVR Testifies at House Public Witness Hearing Requesting FY2014 Funding for NIH of $32 Billion, NEI of $730 Million

AEVR’s World Glaucoma Week 2013 Briefing Features Real-Time OCT Imaging

NAEVR Joins Vision Community in Developing Audacious Goals to Preserve and Restore Vision

ARVO Advocates Urge Congress to Avoid Sequestration

February 2013 International Innovation Magazine Features NAEVR Advocacy for Vision Trauma Research Funding

World Sight Day 2012 Congressional Briefing Highlights Collaborations In Vision Research and Blindness Prevention Activities

AEVR International AMD Awareness Week Congressional Briefing: Research Suggests AMD as Multiple Biological Diseases

Schepens Military Vision Symposium: AEVR Releases Defense Vision Brochure, DOD Announces $14 Million in Awards to 21 Vision Researchers

Vision Impairment and Blindness Incidence Increases In Last Decade With Greatest Increase in Diabetic Retinopathy

NEI Signs Agreement with UK for Collaborative Research into Inflammatory Eye Diseases

NAEVR Participates in Project Gemini, an Exchange Between US and UK Blinded Veterans

NAEVR Releases Cost of Military Eye Injury Study

DOD Announces $12.2 M Allocated for Awards to Vision Researchers

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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.

AEVR's Decade of Vision 2010-2020

New DOV Deliverable, Value of Defense-Related Vision Research Brochure

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