Dr. Brian Brooks received the 2012 the ARVO Foundation/Pfizer
Ophthalmics/Carl Camras Translational Research Award. This new award
was made possible by a generous donation from Pfizer Ophthalmics in
honor of the late Dr. Carl B. Camras, a highly respected glaucoma
specialist and a research scientist. Dr. Brooks is chief of the NEI’s
Unit on Pediatric, Developmental and Genetic Ophthalmology. He is one of
the few clinician scientists in North America with board certification
in both ophthalmology and medical genetics. Read more.
Dr. Rachel Caspi, chief of the NEI’s Immunoregulation Section in the
Laboratory of Immunology, recently received an Alcon Research Institute
Award. This award was set up to support research in eye health and to
expand the frontiers of vision sciences throughout the world. This
year, Alcon awarded six outstanding vision researchers with $100,000
each in funding, an invitation to an honorary symposium, and lifetime
membership in the Alcon Research Institute. Read more.
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