The Defense Health Agency awarded a $498,896 Project Grant through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. in Boston, MA. The grant supports a 2-year research project investigating the use of noninvasive transpalpebral electrical stimulation as a therapy for combat-related corneal trauma. As an experienced performer of prior federal grants from agencies like the NIH, DoD, and Army, the non-profit Schepens Eye Research...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $820,833 Project Grant to The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc., a non-profit research organization affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear. The grant, funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports a research project to "Identify the Liver Microenvironment that Drives Uveal Melanoma Metastasis and Immunity." The 3-year award, effective from...
The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. was awarded a $1,475,676 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 to develop concomitant topical treatments for pain and inflammation resulting from ocular injuries. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports biomedical research that transforms military and public health...
The U.S. Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) awarded a $1,477,500 Project Grant to The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear. The 3-year grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, will fund research on "Topical Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide for Corneal Injury Prevention and Regeneration." The Schepens Eye Research Institute, which has...
The University of Melbourne was awarded a $2,394,446 project grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 to imagine imaging toxin-mediated alpha-synuclein in the eye. Through this award, the University of Melbourne will support the Military Medical Research and Development program's goals of transforming health care for service members and the...
The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. was awarded a $1,477,390.00 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant, awarded on June 15, 2023, will fund research to investigate the role of the Rho-kinase pathway in proliferative vitreoretinopathy, a serious eye condition, over a 3-year period ending on June 14, 2026. As a non-profit organization affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,061,440 Project Grant to the University of South Florida (USF) on September 1, 2023 under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. This 3-year grant will support USF's development of an artificial cornea and sensor-based continuous intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring system to treat patients with cornea blindness secondary to war-related ocular injuries. The products and services to be delivered through this grant include...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,158,179.00 Project Grant to The Ohio State University under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to deliver a sustained therapeutic protein cocktail delivery system to prevent vision loss after ocular trauma. The project aims to develop innovative treatments for military service members and veterans by conducting basic, translational, and clinical research. As a sub-award under this grant, the...
The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $1,428,860 Project Grant to The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. of Boston, MA under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to investigate the safety and efficacy of supersaturated oxygen emulsion (SSOE) as a novel topical treatment for open globe injury. The three-year award beginning September 30, 2022 will support animal research using mice to test SSOE and controls supplied by sub-awardee Coruna Medical...
The U.S. Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $419,640.00 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) federal grant program to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. This funding supports research focused on pathobiology and novel therapeutics for vision-threatening ocular radiation injury. The project aims to advance medical understanding and treatment approaches for this condition, which is particularly relevant to military service members....