Congratulations the following members of IO staff who have had research grants announced in October and November 2015. We'd also like to thank the awarding bodies who enable us to deliver high caliber research that has the potential to change lives.
| PI | Funder | Title | IoO Amount |
| John Marshall | FIGHT FOR SIGHT | An Investigation using Shearing Interferometry to determine the biomechanical properties associated with refractive surgery using the smile technique in comparison with LASIK | £ 43,000 |
| Mike Cheetham | MRC | Molecular chaperone function and motor neuron degeneration | £550,799 |
| Robin Ali | MRC | Overcoming immunological barriers to regenerative medicine | £185,681 |
| James Bainbridge | BAYER PLC | Educational grant towards the purchase of 5 vials of Eylea | £ 4,080 |
| Robin Ali | Wellcome Trust | Development of an AAV vector for treatment of Batten disease caused by mutations in TPP1 (CLN2 disease) | £ 53,875 |
| James Bainbridge | MRC | Development of an opticin-based anti-angiogenic therapeutic for the treatment of ocular disease | £247,835 |
| John Dart | Special Trustees | Travel support grant for ARVO attendance | £ 1,885 |
| Naushin Waseem | Special Trustees | Functional Characterisation of Pigment Dispersion Syndrome associated mutations in Obscurin | £ 20,000 |
| Mariya Moosajee | BIPOSA | Ocular-eyelid coloboma and facial clefts- a genetic study to identify universal clefting genes | £ 5,000 |
| Alison Hardcastle | ProQR | Towards a therapy for Fuch's Corneal Dystrophy caused by expanded repeats of the TCF4 gene | £ 84,195 |
| Robin Ali | Special Trustees | Differentiation of human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells into photoreceptors using bioreactor technology. | £ 13,613 |
| Phil Luthert | BBSRC | An integrated computational model of human outer retinal bioenergetics and effects of ageing | £368,544 |