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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

NAEVR Supports World Glaucoma Week

NAEVR Participates in White House Conference on Aging

NAEVR Supports Research!America's Initiative to Educate about Candidates' Views on Medical Research

NIH Issues Guidance on Salary Cap Reduction, Inflationary Increases

President Obama Signs FY2012 Appropriations Bill that Includes At Least $5 Million More for Vision Research

NIH Establishes NCATS, per the FY2012 Appropriations Conference Agreement

Congress Finalizes FY2012 Appropriations With an NIH/NEI Increase Although A Continuing Resolution Funds the Government through December 23

Congress Finalizes FY2012 Appropriations with a Decrease in Peer Reviewed Medical Research-Vision Funding

NAEVR Releases Fall 2011 Contributor Report

Congress Passes Third FY2012 Continuing Resolution; Funds Government Through December 16

NIH’s SMRB Meets to Review Status of Recommendations

TATRC Begins Review of FY2011 Pre-Proposal Submissions

Media Highlights Proposed Defense Vision Cuts

House Passes Short-Term CR to Fund Government; Measure Goes to the White House

NAEVR Commends House LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rehberg for Proposed FY2012 NIH Funding Increase of $1 Billion

House Issues Draft FY2012 LHHS Appropriations Bill That Increases NIH Funding by $1 Billion, as Proposed in the President’s Budget

Senate Passes Short-Term CRs to Fund Government as FY2012 Begins

NAEVR: Concerned About Senate Bill's FY2012 Funding Cuts to NIH/NEI During The Decade of Vision

Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY2012 LHHS Funding Bill That Cuts Most NIH Institutes by One Percent

OMB Directs Agencies to Budget for FY2013 at Five Percent Below the FY2011 Level

Congressional Action in September Critical To FY2012 Research Funding

The Vision Community Announces Congressional Briefings on Three Topics in Eye Disease Research and Prevention September-October 2011

NEI Clinician Scientist Discusses Lifestyle And AMD IN A September 21 AEVR Congressional Briefing During International AMD Awareness Week

DOD Funds Vision Research at $8.7 M in FY2011

Medical Research Community Sorting Out the Implications of The Budget Control Act of 2011

NAEVR Releases Spring/Summer 2011 Contributor Report

DHHS Notifies Congress of NIH’s NCATS Plans, House Responds

Senators Casey and Burr Lead Letter in Support of NIH Funding

Dr. Collins Testifies Before the Senate LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee Promising Greater Details about NCATS, NAEVR Submits Written Testimony

Clinician-Scientist Speaks About Public-Private Partnership to Discover Vision-Saving Drugs Using NIH Screening Technology

DOD Announces Fiscal Year 2012 Clinical Trials Award Research Program

Congress Passes Bill to Fund Government for Remainder of Fiscal Year 2011

NAEVR Submits Written Testimony to the House LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee Supporting FY2012 NIH Funding at $35 Billion

Carl Kupfer, First Director of the National Eye Institute, Passes Away

NAEVR Releases Winter/Spring 2011 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.

AEVR's Decade of Vision 2010-2020

NIH Director Dr. Collins Applauds NAEVR’s Efforts

NEI Clinician Scientist Discusses Lifestyle and AMD

Capitol Hill Education Focuses on Diabetic Retinopathy

NAEVR’s James Jorkasky Speaks on Vision Research Funding Advocacy at the European Union in Brussels

Congressional Briefing Highlights NIH’s Drug Discovery Technology

International Innovation Features Interview with NAEVR’s James Jorkasky

DOD Announces Plan to Issue a Program Announcement in the May/June Timeframe per FY2011 Funding for its Vision Research Program

NAEVR Central, the Vision Research Community’s “Town Hall,” Draws Record Number of Visitors at 2011 ARVO Annual Meeting

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

NAEVR’s James Jorkasky Receives AGS President’s Award

NAEVR Meets with VSOs to Ensure Support for FY2012 PRMR-Vision Funding

DOD Funded Researchers Address Diagnosis of Visual Disorders from TBI

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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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