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NAEVR Announces Release of
The Silver Book: Vision Loss

NAEVR Supports World Glaucoma Day

NAEVR Participates in White House Conference on Aging

DOD Announces $10 Million in Vision Research Portfolio Grants at ARVO Annual Meeting

Schepens Eye Research Institute to Host Military Vision Research Symposium

Vision Researchers Receive at Least $230M from ARRA/DOD Funding
NEI Awards 333 ARRA Grants. Click Here for More Information

DOD Vision Research Funding Tops $11 Million Due to Quality of Grants

Congress Proposes FY2011 Inflationary Increase for NIH Similar to President’s Budget

AEVR Features International Researcher in September 23 Congressional Briefing During International AMD Awareness Week

Cong. Timothy Walz Issues Letter Asking House Colleagues to Support PRMR-Vision Funding at $10 Million in FY2011 Defense Appropriations

NAEVR Releases Spring/Summer 2010 Contributor Report

NEI Concludes the 40th Anniversary Celebration with a Symposium on Translational Research and Vision at which Dr. Collins Recognizes Its Leadership on This Priority NIH Issue

AEVR Co-Sponsors Congressional Briefing on Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation

NIH Director Dr. Collins Stresses Power of the "Genetic Signature" to Develop Personalized Treatments in his First Appearance Before the House Energy and Commerce Committee

NAEVR Testifies Against Merging NIH Institutes at Meeting Where Dr. Collins Asks the SMRB To Develop an Integrated Approach to Translational Research

Dr. Collins Cites NEI-Funded Human Gene Therapy at House and Senate Hearings on FY2011 NIH Funding

Statement from Paul A. Sieving, Director of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, during Healthy Vision Month, May 2010

NEI Announces Identification of Additional Genes Associated with AMD

NAEVR Submits Written Testimony to Senate and House LHHS Appropriations Subcommittees Supporting FY2011 NIH Funing at $35 Billion

NAEVR Releases Winter/Spring 2010 Contributor Report

AEVR's Decade of Vision 2010-2020 And the Foundation Fighting Blindness Host a Congressional Briefing on the Artificial Retina on Eve of Healthy Vision Month

NAEVR Submits NIH Listens Comments to Dr. Collins Citing Concerns About Future NIH/NEI Funding and Clustering of Institutes/Maintaining the NEI Budget Line

NAEVR Works with Blinded Veterans Association To Seek Congressional Support for FY2011 Peer Reviewed Medical Research-Vision Funding at $10 Million

NEI Releases Statement Recognizing First World Glaucoma Week

DHHS Secretary Sebelius Announces New NIH/FDA Collaboration To Support Efforts in Translational and Regulatory Science

VSO Independent Budget Echoes NAEVR's Request Urging Congress to Fund Extramural Peer-Reviewed Vision Research at $10 Million in FY2011 Defense Appropriations

NAEVR Expresses Concern Over President Obama's Proposed FY2011 NIH/NEI Funding Levels and Urges Congress to Improve Upon These Numbers

President Issues FY2011 Budget Proposing 3.2 Percent Increase in NIH Funding, 2.4 Percent Increase in NEI Funding, Per NEI Congressional Justification

NAEVR Releases FY2011 Funding Requests that Include $35 Billion for NIH and $10 Million for Extramural Peer-Reviewed Vision Research in Defense Appropriations

AEVR’s Decade of Vision 2010-2020 Initiative Announces First-Quarter 2010 Congressional Briefings on Defense-Related Vision Research and Glaucoma

NAEVR Thanks Congress for Maintaining the Vision Line Item in FY2010 Defense Appropriations But Expresses Concern About Its Funding Level

Congress Passes FY2010 Defense Appropriations Bill; Dedicated Peer-Reviewed Vision Research Program is Retained but Funding Level is Cut

NAEVR Thanks Congress for $18.5 Million Increase in NEI Funding That, with $26.7 Million ARRA Balance, Yields $45 Million More for Vision Research in FY2010

NEI Posts Top Five Stories of 2009

Congressional Conferees Approve an Omnibus Spending Package that Includes FY2010 Funding Increases for NIH, NEI

FY2009 Increase of at Least $230 Million in NIH and Defense Vision Funding Emphasizes Research Quality, Public Health Need, and Impact of NAEVR Advocacy

NAEVR Releases Fall 2009 Contributor Report

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	The U.S. Congress should adequately fund eye and vision research at the NEI. Eye and vision disease is now at epidemic proportions. As of the year 2000 census, more than 119 million Americans age 40+ were at risk from age-related eye disease, such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataracts. More than 35 million Americans age 40+ currently experience these diseases, in addition to the 3.4 million who are blind, and this number is expected to grow to 50 million by the year 2020. A growing Hispanic and African American population is experiencing a disproportionate incidence of glaucoma and cataracts. And, the epidemic of diabetes is increasing the onset of diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in individuals 25-74 years in age.

NEI 40th Anniversary and
AEVR Decade of Vision 2010-2020

Congressional Briefing Stresses Growing Need for Low Vision Rehabilitation Services

At World Ophthalmology Congress, NAEVR Speaks about the Impact of Economic Stimulus Funding on Vision Research and Meets with European Advocacy Colleagues

NAEVR Offers Oral and Written Comments at the First Stakeholders Meeting of the NIH/FDA Joint Leadership Council

Vision Community Testifies at Citizen Witness Hearing on FY2011 NIH/NEI Funding

TATRC Vision Portfolio Manager Robert Read announces defense vision awards

DOD Announces $10 Million in Vision Research Portfolio Grants Funded Primarily by the Peer Reviewed Medical Research-Vision Line Item in Defense Appropriations

NAEVR Central, the Vision Research Community’s “Town Hall,” Draws Largest Number of Visitors at 2010 ARVO Annual Meeting

Lead Artificial Retina Researcher Mark Humayun, M.D., Ph.D.

Artificial Retina Holds Promise for Restoring Vision to Millions

Vision Community Unites to Observe World Glaucoma Week on Capitol Hill

Vision Research Meeting Battlefield Needs: Corneal Wound Sealing/Healing and Protection

TATRC on Track to Issue FY2009 Extramural Defense-Related Vision Research Awards by late First-Quarter 2010

In January 29 Advocacy Day, ARVO Members Among First to Request FY2011 NIH Funding at $35 Billion

Ocular Surgery News Article on Dedicated Peer-reviewed Medical Research-Vision Program and Vision Center of Excellence

AEVR Co-sponsors Capitol Hill Welcome Reception for NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins

Cong. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ, center) with Shigeru Kinoshita M.D., Ph.D. (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine/Japan, left) and ARVO President Nicholas Delamere, Ph.D. (University of Arizona, right)

ARVO Members Among First to Educate Congress about ARRA-Funded Research

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	The NEI estimates that, currently, more than 38 million Americans age 40 and older experience blindness, low vision or an age-related eye disease such as AMD, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or cataracts. This is expected to grow to more than 50 million Americans by year 2020.

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