Congrats to TFOS Travel Award Winners!

TFOS TRAVEL AWARDS @ ARVO 2012

The Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) congratulates the following individuals for winning the TFOS Travel Awards for ARVO 2012:

  • Yihe Chen (Boston, MA) – Chronic Dry Eye Disease is Predominately Mediated by Memory T Cells (Program#/Poster#: 2326/A343)
  • Terry Coursey (Houston, TX) – CCR6KO Mice are Resistant to Dry Eye Disease (Program#/Poster#: 2324/A341)
  • Wendy Kam (Boston, MA) – Influence of Proliferation and Differentiation on Lipid Accumulation and Gene Expression in Human Meibomian Gland Epithelial Cells (Program#/Poster#: 597/A65)
  • Jerome Mauris (Boston, MA) – Modulation Of Ocular Surface Barrier Function By Galectin-3 (Program#/Poster#: 1842/A305)
  • Zhitao Su (Houston, TX) – Short Ragweed Pollen Induces Proallergic Cytokine TSLP via TLR4-dependent Signaling Pathways in Human and Murine Ocular Surface (Program#/Poster#: 4012/D1000)

    These awards provide partial travel support for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, or young investigators (35 years or younger), whose accepted ARVO ’12 abstract, in which they appear as first author, demonstrates significant scientific achievement in the field of tear film or ocular surface research. Each monetary award ($750.00) is accompanied by a free ticket to the TFOS Annual Dinner on the evening of Monday, May 7th in Fort Lauderdale, as well as membership in TFOS, that includes a subscription to The Ocular Surface (compliments of Alcon).

    TFOS also expresses its appreciation to the TFOS Young Investigator Committee Members (listed below), who considered the hypothesis, experimental design, creativity, innovation, scientific results and significance of each abstract in making their evaluations:

    Monica Alves (Brazil) Pablo Argueso (USA) Stefano Barabino (Italy) Cintia De Paiva (USA) Murat Dogru (Japan) Kari Green (USA) Ana Guzman Aranguez (Spain) Maria Markoulli (Australia) Alison McDermott (USA) Rachel Redfern Rump (USA) Johannes Schwartzkopff (Germany) Louis Tong (Singapore) Norihiko Yokoi (Japan)

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