Project summaries and impact reports of the past recipients awarded by the Retina Australia Grants Program can be found here.
Advancing Usher syndrome type 1B gene therapy with split intein
Dr JiangHui Wang - Centre for Eye Research Australia
$60,000 (2025)
Therapies for currently untreatable autosomal recessive IRDs
Professor Robyn Jamieson - Children’s Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney
$60,000 (2025)
Characterizing Stargardt Disease Mutations for Splice Intervention Therapeutics
Dr Di Huang - Lions Eye Institute
$60,000 (2024, co-funded by the Perth Eye Foundation)
Virtual Reality Assessment of Functional Vision in achromatopsia
Dr Elisa Cornish - Save Sight Institute, Sydney
$52,639 (2024)
Establishing novel AAV gene editing for Usher Syndrome
Dr Anai Gonzalez-Cordero - Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney
$55,774 (2023)
Using RNA-silencing to tackle neuroinflammation in retinal degeneration
Dr Adrian Cioanca - John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra
$59,869 (2023)
Improving real-world mobility and assessing long-term safety outcomes with a retinal prosthesis (“Bionic Eye”)
Associate Professor Penelope Allen - Centre for Eye Research Australia, Melbourne
$39,862 (2022)
RNA base editing strategies as potential therapeutic of inherited retinal dystrophies
Associate Professor Guei-Sheung (Rick) Liu - Centre for Eye Research Australia, Melbourne
$40,000 (2022)
Neuroprotective effect of SAHA in Retinitis Pigmentosa. Do time and frequency matter?
Dr Rabab Rashwan - Lions Eye Institute, Perth
$40,000 (2022)
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Improving Sensory Substitution Low Vision Devices Through Novel Software Adaptations
Associate Professor Lauren Ayton - University of Melbourne
$40,643 (2021)
Looking for disease causing mutations in families with dominant RP pedigrees
Associate Professor Fred K Chen - Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The University of Western Australia
$40,000 (2021)
Strong, fast, then none: development of novel promoters for gene-editing therapies
Professor Alex Hewitt - Menzies Institute for Medical Research, Tasmania
$38,000 (2021)
Potential Participant Perspectives in Ocular Gene Therapy in Australia
Associate Professor Heather Mack AM - Centre for Eye Research Australia/University of Melbourne
$20,000 (2021)
Provision of genetic research reports to research participants via their nominated ophthalmologists or clinical geneticists
Jennifer Thompson - Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
$20,000 (2021)
Single cell RNA sequencing to characterise cell diversity and molecular signatures of hiPSC-derived retinal organoids
Dr Anai Gonzalez-Cordero - Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney
$39,490 (2020)
Provision of genetic research reports to Australian Inherited Retinal Disease Registry participants via their nominated ophthalmologist or clinical geneticist
Jennifer Thompson - The Australian Inherited Retinal Disease Registry & DNA Bank, Perth
$40,000 (2020)
Development of regenerative therapy for retinitis pigmentosa using cellular reprogramming
Raymond Wong - Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne
$40,000 (2020)
Dual AAV retinal gene therapy approach for Usher 1F treatment
Dr Livia S Carvalho - Lions Eye Institute, Perth
$40,000 (2019)
Improving the global acceptance of retinal prostheses: Assessing the influence of different stages of retinal degeneration on selective activation of retinal ganglion cells
Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell - University of New South Wales, Sydney
$39,900 (2019)
Define the mechanism by which C1 rescues some functions in Best Disease RPE
Associate Professor Michael O’Connor - Western Sydney University, Sydney
$40,000 (2019)