Vision
Research Highlights/News

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2024

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Vision Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunity for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24)
  April 11, 2024

2023

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Vision Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23)
  March 28, 2023

News:

• VRP-Funded Investigator Receives Award at Military Health System Research Symposium 2023 (external link)
  DVIDS, August 21, 2023
• NAEVR Defense Funding Session Features DOD Vision Program Manager, Insights into the FY2023 Program Announcement (external link)
  NAEVR AEVR, May 9, 2023
• Lab-grown retinal eye cells make successful connections, open door for clinical trials to treat blindness (external link)
  University of Wisconsin-Madison News, February 3, 2023

2022

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Vision Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22)
  March 22, 2022
• VRP Hosts In-Progress Review and State-of-Science Meeting on Retina and Optic Nerve Injury Research
  February 9, 2022

News:

• Xequel Bio Announces Positive Results from Phase 1b Study of iNexinTM, a Novel aCT1 Ophthalmic Solution (external link)
  Xequel Bio, October 31, 2022
• VRP-funded study advances retinal thermofusion in retinal detachment repair (external link)
  ScienceDirect, August 10, 2022

2021

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Vision Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21)
  April 1, 2021

Research Highlights:

• CDMRP's Vision Research Funding Opportunities Discussed at Joint ARVO NAEVR Webinar

News:

• Schepens Eye Research Institute/Mass Eye and Ear hosts the 7th Military Vision Symposium (external link)
  Military Vision Symposium, February 3, 2021

2020

Press Releases:

• Defense Health Program Department of Defense Vision Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20)
  April 15, 2020

Research Highlights:

• CDMRP s Vision Research Funding Opportunities Discussed at Joint ARVO NAEVR Webinar

2019

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Vision Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
  April 5, 2019

Video Highlights:

• Interviews of 2019 VRP Programmatic Panel Members

2018

Press Releaes:

• Department of Defense Vision Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18)
April 26, 2018

News:

• Peripheral Prisms and Perceptual-Motor Training Improve Detection in a Driving Simulator (external link)
  TVST, April 25, 2018
• Wireless, Web-Based Interactive Control of Optical Coherence Tomography with Mobile Devices (external link)
  TVST, February 28, 2018
• Study finds genetic link between thinner corneas and increased risk of glaucoma (external link)
  EurekAlert Science News, February 27, 2018

2017

Research Highlights:

• USC Team Captures Valuable User Feedback from Military Medical Personnel regarding Novel Reversible Adhesive to Manage Ocular Trauma

Press Releaes:

• Department of Defense Vision Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2017
February 3, 2017

News:

• Expanding Advocacy for Head Trauma Vision Research Funding (external link)
  American Academy of Optometry, November 8, 2017
• Vision Research Program (VRP) Investigators invited to present at the 2017 Military Health System Research Symposium
  September 26, 2017

2016

Research Highlights:

• Army Medicine Opens the Door for Vision Prosthetic Prototypes

2015

Research Highlights:

• Computational Modeling of Primary Blast Injury to the Eye
• A Retinal Prosthetic with the Capacity to Produce Normal Vision

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