Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), in partnership with the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS), recently announced two recipients of its $1.2 million, two-pronged research initiative to address urgent needs in understanding and treating low vision.
Lotfi B. Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH, associate professor of ophthalmology for the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and optometrist and assistant scientist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, was named recipient of the RPB/Lions Clubs International Foundation $300,000 Low Vision Research Award. Dr. Merabet will reportedly combine behavioral and neuroimaging approaches to characterize inadequate brain development in an under-studied population of children with cortical visual impairment.
And Roberto Manduchi, PhD, professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz was granted $100,000 as the recipient of winner of the RPB/Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Innovations in Technology Low Vision Research Award. Dr. Manduchi is reportedly developing an economical and easy-to-use low vision screen magnifier that will enable scrolling control by means of the viewer's own gaze, rather than by using a mouse or trackpad.
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Source: Research to Prevent Blindness