- travel grants
TFOS Travel Award Winners - ARVO 2018
TFOS congratulates the following individuals for winning the TFOS Travel Awards for ARVO 2018:
Yang Liu (Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, USA) - Is hypoxia beneficial for the meibomian gland? (Abstract #4954)
Di Chen (Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, USA) - Biomarkers for epithelial cells and basement membranes in the human meibomian gland (Abstract #4921)
Jose Tomas Blanco-Mezquita (Tufts Medical Center; now at Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, USA) - Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are essential for nerve repair in a mouse model of corneal injury (Abstract #3327)
JingHua Bu (Eye Institute of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China) - High-fat diet induces inflammation in murine meibomian gland via regulating PPAR-γ pathway (Abstract #4926)
These awards are given to postdoctoral fellows, graduate students or young investigators (40 years or younger) who demonstrate significant scientific achievements in the field of tear film and ocular surface research. The amount of the award is $750. There were 54 applicants for the TFOS Travel Awards for ARVO 2018.
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)
Reiko Arita (Japan)
Juan Ding (USA)
Laura Downie (Australia)
Preeya Gupta (USA)
Kaevalin Lekhanont (Thailand)
Maria Markoulli (Australia)
Kyung-Sun Na (South Korea)
Tannin Schmidt (USA)
Benjamin D Sullivan (USA)
Jelle Vehof (The Netherlands)
Edoardo Villani (Italy)
Tais Hitomi Wakamatsu (Brazil)