Emerging Vision Scientists Advocate, Educate, About the Value of Vision Research
09/26/2023 - The class of the Ninth 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 Hosts Congressional Briefing On Dry Eye Disease
08/18/2023 - From left: AEVR Executive Director Dan Ignaszewski, TFOS Excutive Director Amy Sullivan, David Sullivan, MS, PhD, Shane Swatts, OD, Kathy Hammit, and Bridgitte Shen Lee, OD … Read More
AEVR Congressional Briefing Focuses on Rare Eye Diseases
06/12/2023 - Featured speaker Ben Shaberman, PhD (Foundation Fighting Blindness) addresses the audience Click here to watch the video On May 25, AEVR held a Congressional Briefing … Read More
At ARVO Annual Meeting, Researchers Urge Congress to Support Increased Funding for NIH, NEI
05/08/2023 - NAEVR’s Dan Ignaszewski and David Epstein spoke with interested researchers about how to increase federal funding for the NEI At the 2023 ARVO Annual Meeting in New Orlea… Read More
NAEVR Defense Funding Session Features DOD Vision Program Manager, Insights into the FY2023 Program Announcement
05/01/2023 - VRP Program Manager Tian Wang, PhD, addresses the audience NAEVR’s April 24 Defense-Related Vision Research Opportunities session at the ARVO Annual Meeting in New Orlean… Read More
AEVR Hosts World Glaucoma Week Congressional Briefing entitled Advancements in Glaucoma Treatment: The Silent Thief of Sight
03/15/2023 - Sarah Wellik, MD (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami) On March 15, the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) held its annual glaucoma Congres… Read More
ARVO Advocates Among First to Request FY2024 NIH/NEI Funding Increases
03/06/2023 - The participants in this year's ARVO AMPC Advocacy Day included members of ARVO's Science Communications Fellows Program along with AMPC Members On February 28, the ARVO Annu… Read More
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