ARDC Research Link Australia

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $164,444.00
Summary: Adequate oxygen supply to the retina is critical for normal visual function. The oxygen is normally supplied by the blood flowing in the two circulations that support the retina. These are the choroidal circulation, lying behind the retina, and the retinal circulation, which supports the front half of the retina. The retinal circulation is particularly vulnerable to vascular disease and insufficient blood flow (ischemia). Vascular changes are involved in a wide range of retinal diseases which ar ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $733,841.00
Summary: Despite improvements in patient care, the incidence of diabetic retinopathy is dramatically increasing. Recent evidence suggests that a component of a hormonal system, called prorenin, may participate in the development of diabetic organ disease. We will evaluate the role of prorenin in vascular and nerve damage in animal models of diabetic retinopathy. We will determine if a new inhibitor of prorenin, prevents retinal injury and is a potential treatment for diabetic retinopathy.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $3,550,944.00
Summary: This program proposal targets the most common blinding diseases in clinical ophthalmology. The applicant team includes research and clinical ophthalmologists and basic scientists. The team have an internationally established reputation in bringing basic science discoveries to the point where they can impact directly on clinical diagnosis and therapy. The proposed research includes new treatment therapies for diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration, and retinal vascular diseases. A ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $2,552,355.00
Summary: The four eye diseases that cause the majority of vision loss in Australia, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, cataract and glaucoma, impose a significant socio-economic burden, costing our nation -$lo billion a year. This CCRE will fund a world leading, broad-based, clinical and translational research program in Melbourne and Sydney to tackle these eye diseases. The new knowledge and innovative clinical strategies developed in this CCRE will impact on clinical ophthalmology ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $265,888.00
Summary: This project is directed towards treatment for the blindness caused by retinal degeneration. The retina of the eye degenerates in several groups of diseases, and from several causes. Many cases affect young people and result from small genetic mutations in key proteins. Many appear to be caused by environmental damage to the retina, perhaps at birth. Retinal degeneration causes progressive blindness in a minority of younger people (about 1 in 4,000, so 5,000 Australians and 1-2 million people wo ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $536,794.00
Summary: Focal retinopathies such as age-related macular degeneration pose an immense burden on our society, both socially and economically. We have recently developed an animal model that allows us to investigate for the first time, drugs and therapies that might be used to treat AMD both after its onset, and more significantly, in at-risk populations before onset of the disease.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $196,527.00
Summary: The fovea is a specialized part of the retina which enables us to see fine detail. The fovea is characterised by an extremely high concentration of photoreceptor cells in a small, prescribed area to detect detail in the pattern of light reaching the retina. Each of these photoreceptor cells is connected to at least four other cells within the retina, which further refine the information coded by the photoreceptors. Because this circuitry involves so many cells, the retina has a tendency to be th ....
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