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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

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

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

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

Department of Defense Announces New Medical Research Program

Congress Passes Second Continuing Resolution That Funds Government Programs Through December 18, 2009

NIH Releases Preliminary Data on FY2009 ARRA Funding

Vision Research Means Hope: Celebrating National Medical Research Day

Book Recounts Establishment and First Three Decades of the National Eye Institute

President Obama Visits NIH Announcing $5 Billion in ARRA Funding, Representing 12,000 Grants

Congress Passes Continuing Resolution That Funds Government Programs Through October 31, 2009

AEVR Co-sponsors Capitol Hill Briefing on Gender Equity in Eye Care and Blindness Prevention on October 8, World Sight Day

AEVR’s Decade of Vision 2010-2020 Initiative Hosts a Congressional Briefing on the ROBO4 Protein Pathway Research During AMD Awareness Week 2009

NIH Director Francis Collins Cites NIH Challenges and Priorities

House Passes NIH Funding Bill, Senate to Take Up Its Bill After Recess

NAEVR Releases Spring/Summer 2009 Contributor Report

Department of Defense TBI Research Program Opens for Pre-Proposal Submission

NAEVR Commends Chairman Obey for NIH Funding Markup that Improves on the President's FY2010 Proposal, Begins Process to Rebuild NIH Budget

NAEVR Applauds Nomination of Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., as NIH Director, Cites Past Collaborative Research with NEI on Ocular Genetics

Senate Passes S. Res. 209 Recognizing the NEI's 40th Anniversary and Designating 2011-2020 as the Decade of Vision

Department of Defense Vision Research Program Opens for Pre-Proposal Submission

House Passes H. Res. 366 Recognizing the NEI's 40th Anniversary and Designating 2010-2020 as the Decade of Vision

AEVR Announces a June 17th Congressional Reception Celebrating the NEI's 40th Anniversary

NAEVR Urges Senate Appropriators to Increase FY2010 NIH/NEI Funding by At Least Seven Percent

Senate LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee Holds FY2010 NIH Budget Hearing Questioning NIH on Implementation of $10.4 Billion in Economic Stimulus Funding

President Issues FY2010 Budget Proposing 1.4 Percent Increase in NIH Funding, One Percent Increase in NEI Funding, Per NEI Congressional Justification

NIH’s Scientific Management Review Board Meets, Organizes Working Groups to Address NIH Structural/Management Issues

NIH Requests Comments on Imminent Draft Guidelines on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

NAEVR Releases Winter/Spring 2009 Contributor Report

NEI’s Second Event to Celebrate its 40th Anniversary Focuses on the Genetic Basis of Eye Disease

In Testimony, NAEVR Urges House for at An-Least Seven Percent Increase in FY2010 NIH/NEI Funding

Inaugural NEI 40th Anniversary Event Features Blind Mountain Climber, New Technology to Get Visual Signals to the Brain

NAEVR Hosts Defense-related Vision Research Briefing, Contact Congress Booth at ARVO 2009

Acting Director Dr. Kington Updates House Appropriators on NIH’s Implementation Of Economic Stimulus Funding

A Tongue for an Eye: NEI 40th Anniversary Event to Feature BrainPort Device and Blind Adventure Athlete

DOD Releases Vision Research Portfolio Summary which NAEVR Distributes to All Congressional Defense Appropriators

House Appropriations Subcommittee Holds Hearing on FY2010 NIH Funding

House Veterans Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Holds Hearing on the Status of Implementation of the Vision Center of Excellence

Congress Passes FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Bill with Nearly $1 Billion Increase for NIH and $21.4 Million Increase for NEI Over FY2008 Funding

NAEVR Commends President Obama for Reversing Restrictions on Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding

NEI Issues Statement on World Glaucoma Day, March 12, 2009

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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

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

PRO Endpoints</em> Symposium co-chairs Neil Bressler, M.D. (Wilmer Eye Institute/Johns Hopkins) and Rohit Varma, M.D. (Doheny Eye Institute/University of Southern California)

NEI and FDA Address the Use of Patient Reported Outcomes in Medical Product Development

Left to right: AEVR Executive Director James Jorkasky joined moderator Louis Pizzarello, M.D., M.P.H., (Columbia University) and speaker Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., (NIH/Office of Research on Women’s Health)

Vision Community Unites to Recognize World Sight Day 2009

Kang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. discusses the dramatic implications of his AMD research

Researcher Educates Capitol Hill About the Robo4 Protein Pathway During AMD Awareness Week 2009

NAEVR Justifies $10 Million for Vision Research in FY2010 Defense Appropriations with New Vision Funding Data Supporting its Request

Capitol Hill and Vision Community Recognize NEI 40th Anniversary

Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) Senior Project Officer Robert Read and Vision Center of Excellence (VCE) Director Colonel Donald Gagliano, M.D.

NAEVR Hosts Key DOD Representatives in Standing Room-Only Session on Defense-Related Vision Research Opportunities at the ARVO Annual Meeting

USC Researcher Alex Walsh and NAEVR Executive Director James Jorkasky

NAEVR Booth at ARVO Served as a "Town Hall" For Answers on NIH/DOD Research Funding Issues and to Contact Congress to Support an NEI Funding Increase

NAEVR Advocacy Manager David Epstein with Col. Robert Mazzoli

NAEVR Serves on Planning Panel for New DOD Peer Reviewed Vision Research Program

Vision Community Unites to Observe World Glaucoma Day on Capitol Hill

AEVR/FFB Congressional Briefing Highlights Urgency for Deaf-Blind Research

NAEVR Initiates Celebration of NEI’s 40th Anniversary with Capitol Hill Reception

ARVO Researchers Make FY2010 Funding Requests for Vision Research

Left to right: Dr. Cowan, Dr. Gagliano, and NEI Director Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D.

NAEVR Hosts Drs Gagliano and Cowan in Visits with Community

Colonel Donald Gagliano. M.D. (center) with NAEVR Board member David Pyott (left), Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Allergan, Inc., and NAEVR President Stephen Ryan, M.D. (right), Doheny Eye Institute

NAEVR Board Hosts Dr. Don Gagliano, new Director of the Military Eye Trauma Vision Center of Excellence

AEVR Congressional Briefing Highlights AMD Awareness Week 2008

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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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