Emerging Vision Scientists to Congress: Finalize FY2023 Spending Bills Since Delayed Appropriations Hurt Scientific Progress
09/29/2022 - The class of the Eighth Annual Emerging Vision Scientists Day (see names in the box below) who participated in the AEVR and NAEVR events reflecting the breadth of breakthrough vision… Read More
AEVR Returns to In-Person Events with Age-Related Macular Degeneration Congressional Briefing
09/28/2022 - James T. Handa, MD (Wilmer Eye Institute/Johns Hopkins University) On September 21, AEVR partnered with the American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF) to recognize S… Read More
AEVR Hosts Virtual Congressional Briefing on Dry Eye Disease
07/17/2022 - Anat Galor MD, MSPH (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) Click here to watch the video On July 13, the Alliance for Ey… Read More
AEVR Hosts Virtual Congessional Briefing on Diabetic Retinopathy
05/26/2022 - Jennifer Sun MD, MPH (Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School) Click here to watch the video. On May 25, the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR… Read More
NAEVR Hosts Defense Research Funding Session at ARVO Annual Meeting
05/12/2022 - VRP Program Manager Tian Wang, PhD, speaks to the audience Click here to watch the video. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the NAEVR Defen… Read More
AEVR Celebrates World Glaucoma Week with Congressional Briefing
03/10/2022 - Leon Herndon, MD (Duke University Medical Center) Click here to view a video of the briefing On March 8, the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) cele… Read More
ARVO Advocates Urge Congress to Finalize FY2022 Appropriations, Fund NIH for FY2023
03/04/2022 - On February 25, NAEVR organized ARVO’s virtual Advocacy Day. This event engaged members of ARVO’s Annual Meeting Planning Committee (AMPC), Advocacy Awards winners, the Advoc… Read More
AEVR Briefing Recognizes Second Annual Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week and Women’s Vision Health Issues
12/13/2021 - Kimberly Cockerham, MD, FACS (Central Valley Eye Medical Group/Senta Clinic) On November 17, AEVR’s Research Saving Sight, Restoring Vision Initiative held a virtual glob… Read More
AEVR Hosts World Keratoconus Day Congressional Briefing With Clinicians Speaking to Patients about Research and Treatments
11/16/2021 - Taylor Young (National Keratoconus Foundation) To watch the video of the briefing, click here. On November 10 and in recognition of World Keratoconus Day 2021, … Read More
AEVR Briefing Educates about Myopia, A Looming Public Health Crisis
10/29/2021 - Jason Compton, OD (Compton Eye Associates, New York, New York) On October 20, AEVR's Research Saving Sight, Restoring Vision Initiative and co-sponsors (see box below… Read More
AEVR Highlights Latest in Clinical Practice and Research for Patients in its International Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Week 2021 Congressional Briefing
10/12/2021 - AEVR began its virtual Seventh Annual Emerging Vision Scientists (EVS) Day with the global International AMD Awareness Week 2021 Congressional Briefing, also held during Healthy Aging Month, that hig… Read More
Emerging Vision Scientists Educate, Advocate
10/04/2021 - Since 2015, AEVR/NAEVR has hosted nearly 180 early-stage investigators on Capitol Hill through its Emerging Vision Scientists Day (EVS) program, which is designed to be an important component of … Read More
AEVR and TFOS Highlight Consequences of Lifestyle Choices on the Ocular Surface
07/13/2021 - Jennifer P. Craig, PhD, FCOptom (The University of Auckland) Click Here to watch a video of the Briefing On July 13, AEVR’s Research Saving Sight, Restoring … Read More
NAEVR and ARVO Host Defense Research Funding Opportunities Webinar
06/04/2021 - CDMRP Vision Program Manager Tian Wang, PhD On June 2 NAEVR, along with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), held a special Defense Research Fundi… Read More
AEVR Recognizes World Glaucoma Week 2021 with a Congressional Briefing Focusing on Optimizing Patient Outcomes
03/12/2021 - Elyse McGlumphy, MD and Mona Kaleem, MD Wilmer Eye Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Click here to view a video of the briefing. On M… Read More
ARVO Advocates Among First to Request FY2022 NIH/NEI Funding Increases and Research Relief
02/22/2021 - On February 19, NAEVR managed ARVO’s first virtual Advocacy Day, which engaged members of ARVO’s Annual Meeting Planning Committee, Science Communication Training Fellows, Advocacy Awards winners… Read More
AEVR Hosts Thyroid Eye Disease Congressional Briefing
12/15/2020 - Featured speaker Gary Lelli, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine) Click Here to watch a video of the Briefing On November 19, AEVR’s Decade of Vision 2010-2020 Initia… Read More
Emerging Vision Scientists Educate, Advocate Virtually
10/21/2020 - On September 23, AEVR held its Sixth Annual Emerging Vision Scientists Day on Capitol Hill which engaged 22 early-stage investigators nominated by their Departments… Read More
AEVR Focuses on Artificial Intelligence in Retinal Disease in the International Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Week 2020 Congressional Briefing
10/20/2020 - Tiarnán D.L. Keenan, BM BCh, PhD (NEI) As in past years, AEVR began its virtual Sixth Annual EVS Day with the International AMD Awareness Week Congressional Bri… Read More
Speakers Urge More Dry Eye Disease Research While Discussing How Lifestyle Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Affect Vision
07/09/2020 - Left to right: The Briefing faculty consisted of AEVR Executive Director James Jorkasky, MBA, Bridgitte Shen Lee, OD (Vision Optique), Scott Schachter, OD (Vision Source and Adj… Read More