Types of research funded by Retina Australia
- Investigator-led research into inherited retinal disease, selected and approved via the Retina Australia Research Grants Program
- Other research projects that may be identified to meet industry need
2025 research grants
Retina Australia is delighted to announce two new Research Grant Recipients for 2025. These one-year projects are focused on finding potential new treatments for inherited retinal disease , and will commence in January 2025.
Therapies for currently untreatable autosomal recessive IRDs
Professor Robyn Jamieson - Children's Medical Research Institute, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Save Sight Institute - University of Sydney
$60,000
Advancing Usher syndrome type 1B gene therapy with split intein
Dr Jiang-Hui (Sloan) Wang - Centre for Eye Research Australia, Melbourne
$60,000
2024 research grants
Virtual Reality Assessment of Functional Vision in achromatopsia and albinism
Dr Elisa Cornish - Save Sight Institute, Sydney
$52,639
Characterising Stargardt Disease Mutations for Splice Intervention Therapeutics
Dr Di Huang - Lions Eye Institute, Perth
$60,000 - Co-funded with the Perth Eye Foundation
Research Impact Reports
Project summaries and impact reports of the past recipients awarded by the Retina Australia Grants Program can be found here.
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)