Research

Research

The Children's Eye Foundation is committed to providing funding to early career investigators for innovative projects in vision science that focus on the infant’s and child's visual system and its disorders, as well as strabismus in adults. Our current research programs include:
  • Adult Strabismus - The goal of this program is to educate health care professionals and the general public about strabismus in adults.
  • Outcomes Database for Pediatric Opthalmology - Dr. Marshall Parks, a recognized founder of Pediatric Opthalmology was a visionary. For over fifty years he saw patients and kept their treatment records on notecards. We have inherited these notecards and are building an outcomes database.
  • Economic Impact of Blindness from Amblyopia - a child that loses sight to preventable blindness also looses about $140,000 in lifetime productivity, this white paper examines the cost to that child and to society.

Since our inception almost 40 years ago, we have granted millions in support of research and education to advance the understanding of, and care for, children with eye and visual system disorders and adults with strabismus.

The Children's Eye Foundation has funded almost 100 research studies since being established in 1970. Here are two projects we are currently funding:

CELLULAR RELEASE OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) IN RESPONSE TO INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF-1) STIMULATION
David Morrison, M.D.
Vanderbilt University Department of Ophthalmology

This project attempts to better characterize VEGF response to IGF in cultured cells that are thought to be involved in vascular development, specifically Muller cells and retinal astrocytes. Read more.

VISUAL DEVELOPMENT IN PREMATURE INFANTS
William V. Good M.D.
Senior Scientist, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute San Francisco

The goal of this project is to study the way in which vision develops in premature infants, compared to full term infants. Read more.