Research Strategy
Retina Australia has been providing grants to advance research into inherited retinal disease since 1983.
Our research focus is on finding early detectors, discovering preventions, and accelerating better treatments with the hope of unlocking cures for inherited retinal diseases.
Research Governance
Independence allows us to select the best medical research ideas in Australia
Retina Australia offers funding for Australian medical research into inherited retinal disease through the Retina Australia Research Grants Program. Our independence allows us to select the best and brightest researchers and their ideas from any research institution in the country, via an open and competitive application process.
Expert Grants Advisory Committee
The Research Grants Program is underpinned by a Grants Advisory Committee. Members are highly respected, credentialled experts in their related fields, and represent different medical research institutions in different states.
The members of the Grants Advisory Committee are:
The Grants Advisory Committee examines and makes recommendations about grant applications that are received from the annual Retina Australian Research Grants Program. Applications for these grants are considered and ranked by the Grants Advisory Committee.
The Board appoints a Chair for this Committee, who provides the names and qualifications of other suitably qualified people to be members of the Committee. No Committee member may be a current year grantee or a grant applicant for the following calendar year. No more than one person from any one institution is appointed to membership of the Committee in any one year. The Chair may also call on suitably qualified peer reviewers to provide expert comment on individual applications in order to assist the Committee in their consideration and ranking of the applications.
These rankings, and associated reports, are considered by the Retina Australia Board in determining the allocation of grants from available funds for the calendar year following the application.