Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0455431

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0455431

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Developing innovative contact lens designs and materials for effective and safe corneal refractive reshaping. Despite the increasing prevalence of refractive errors, there are limited options available for refractive error correction. Current contact lens designs for orthokeratology, a corneal reshaping technique which temporarily reduces refractive error, are effective for correcting only low to moderate myopia (short-sightedness). In this project, we will use innovative lens design approaches that harness the fluid forces generated in the post-lens tear film, and modulation of the corneal tissue response to these pressures, to develop novel contact lens designs in appropriate lens materials for effective and safe corneal reshaping to correct a wide range of refractive errors.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $272,070.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Optometry Not Elsewhere Classified | Optometry and Ophthalmology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Manufactured products not elsewhere classified | Biological sciences

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Manufactured products not elsewhere classified | Optometry Not Elsewhere Classified | Optometry and Ophthalmology

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