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YOUNG INVESTIGATOR FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDSPurpose: To present work (poster or oral presentation) and also to learn about a new scientific area at a small international meeting of the caliber of a Gordon Conference or Keystone Symposium. Travel Fellowship Award: Each award will be $1,500 (USD). There will be a limit of 6 total awards per calendar year. Who can apply: Graduate students in good standing, who have either passed their preliminary examinations or are beyond their 3rd year; Postdoctoral fellows (Ph.D., M.D., O.D). Additionally, the researcher must be a TFOS member and involved in a primary research activity related to the tear film and ocular surface. The meeting may be on any topic that would enrich the student or fellow's research, whether or not it is directly related to the eye. An applicant is only eligible for one travel fellowship per year. If an applicant has applied to another source for funding and has been successful in both cases, the applicant must choose between the fellowships. If successful, the written acceptance of the offer of a fellowship must be accompanied by a declaration by the supervisor or other relevant senior person in the applicant's organization that the applicant is not receiving a travel fellowship from another source. When to apply: Applications will be accepted quarterly. Please send applications to Rose Sullivan (rose@tearfilm.org) by January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1. Applicants will be notified of the success of their application by the 15th of the month of the deadline. Application format: The applicant should send 1) a CV; 2) the submitted abstract; 3) a brief (1-2 page) statement discussing the importance of this meeting to their research activities and 4) a letter of support from the supervisor. The applicant does not have to have an accepted abstract at the time of consideration, but proof of acceptance must be provided before travel awards are granted. TFOS Travel Awards ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, May 2007 The award recipients were: Romulo Albuquerque, DDS, MS College of Medicine, Univ of Kentucky, Dept of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Topical Gene ablation of sflt-1 Abolishes Corneal Avascularity Shaolui, MD, PhD Schepens Eye Research Institute Sjšgren's Syndrome Foundation Award Aromatase Influence on Gene Expression in the Meibomian Gland Zan Pan, MD, MS SUNY State College of Optometry Functional Expression of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 4 in Human Corneal Epithelial Cells Hong Qi, MD, PhD Baylor College of Medicine Identification of Neurotrophic Factors NGF, GDNF and Their Corresponding Receptors TrkA, GFR?-1 as Potential New Markers for Human Corneal Epithelial Stem Cells Chandra Saravanan Tufts University Galectin-3 Promotes Formation of Lamellipodia, Filopodia and Tunneling Nanotube (TNT)-Like Structures in Corneal Epithelium. Fan Zhang, MD SUNY State College of Optometry Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) Activation Induces Proinflammatory Responses Through MAPK Stimulation EVER, Vilamoura, October 2006 Winners: Mario Nubile, In vivo confocal microscopy in limbal epithelial damage, Chieti, Italy Felix Bock, Inhibition of inflammatory corneal lymphangiogenesis by an anti-VEGFR3 antibody (mF4-31C1), Erlangen, Germany Rita Barcia, Gene therapy promotes corneal graft survival, Boston, USA ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, May 2006 The award recipients were: Cintia de Paiva, Baylor, US Angela Johnson, Case Western Reserve, US PB Thomas, Doheny Eye Institute, US S. Xu, SUNY State College of Optometry World Ophthalmology Congress, Sao Paulo, February 2006 The award recipients were: Monica Alves, Sao Paulo University Unicamp, Brazil Ana Carolina Dias, Sao Paulo University Unicamp, Brazil Olan Suwan-apichon, Khon Kaen University, Dept of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine Stephanie Watson, Prince of Wales Hospital at the University of New South Wales, Opthalmology, UK Cornea Conference, Boston, September 2005 The award recipients were: Inna Maltseva, UC Berkeley School of Optometry, Berkeley, CA Timothy Blalock, Schepens Eye Research Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA EVER, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2005 The award recipients were: Bves Regulates Corneal Epithelial Monolayer Formation. CHANG MS (1), BADER DM (2)(1) Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,TN; (2) Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Protection of endothelial cell death against oxidative stress during acute corneal graft rejection. BOURGES J-L (1, 2, 3), VALAMANESH F (2), RENARD G (4), DEKOZAK Y (2), BENEZRA D (5, 2), BEHAR-COHEN F (2, 6) (1) Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Paris; (2) U598, INSERM, Paris; (3) Paris-Descartes University, Paris; (4) H™tel-Dieu Hospital, Paris; (5) Ophthalmology, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem; (6) Ophthalmology, Rothschild Ophthalmic Foundation, Paris Immunomodulatory Role of VIP in a Murine Model of P. aeruginosa-Induced Keratitis. SZLITER EA, LIGHVANI S, HAZLETT LD Anatomy & Cell Biology, Detroit TFOS Travel Award Winners, ARVO 2005
The Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) annual TFOS Travel Awards provide partial travel support to the ARVO Annual Meeting for at least four postdoctoral fellows, graduate students or young investigators (35 years or younger) whose ARVO '05 abstract in which they appear as first author
demonstrated significant scientific achievement in the field of tear film, ocular surface or Sjogren's syndrome research. Each award is $750 USD and is accompanied by a free ticket to the TFOS Cruise & Dinner in Fort Lauderdale.
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