Career Development Awards

Career Development Awards are aimed at assisting young faculty (1-3 years from first appiontment) in their efforts to forward their research into potential treatments and cures for the inherited orphan retinal degenerative diseases and dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD).

Current Research Priority Areas are:

Therapeutic Approaches

• Gene Therapy (GT)
• Regenerative Medicine (RM)
• Novel Medical Therapies (NMT)

Basic Research

• Genetics (GE)
• Cell and Molecular Mechanisms of Disease (CMM)

Clinical Research

• Clinical: Structure and Function (CL)

Funding: $75,000 per year
Duration: 5 years 

Research Authority due date: 25.1.24
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