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Research Funding

Research Grants & Awards

Research funding for Jules Stein Eye Institute faculty, 2022–2026

26 NIH grants · 4 non-NIH grants · 0 awards · sourced from NIH Reporter and ORCID · refreshed daily

2026

Anne Coleman

Anthony Aldave

Clinician-Scientist Eye Training (C-SET) Program

Anne Louise Coleman, Anthony John Aldave

$595K

K12NEI20262031
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Greg D. Field

Mapping the retinal projectome in primates

Gregory Darin Field, Hong-wei Dong, Alexander C Huk

$2.69M

R01NEI20262030
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Greg D. Field

Elucidating Novel Features of Visual Processing and Physiological Connectivity from Retina to Primary Visual Cortex

Gregory Darin Field, Alexander C Huk, Steven Warren Zucker

$2.70M

R01NEI20202030
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Alapakkam Sampath

Molecular Basis of Photoreceptor Wiring

Kirill A. Martemyanov, Alapakkam P Sampath

$490K

R01NEI20172028
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Edmund Tsui

Researching OCT Biomarkers in UveitiS clinical Trials (ROBUST)

Edmund Tsui, Michael M Altaweel, Douglas A Jabs

$723K

R01NEI20262031
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David Williams

Cellular mechanisms of MYO7A in the retina

Brian A Link, David S Williams

$591K

R01NEI20262030
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Joel Zylberberg

Why are there so many retinal ganglion cell types?: An information-theoretic framework to understand the tradeoff between computations performed at the sensory periphery vs the central nervous system

United States Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA9550261B113

2025

Adrian Au

Genetic Variation in AMD Progression and Treatment Response

Adrian C Au

$244K

K23NEI20252030
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Joseph Demer

Greg D. Field

David Williams

Xian-Jie Yang

Prototype Construction Core

Joseph Louis Demer

$125K

P30NEI19972029
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Sophie Deng

Development of Stem Cell-based Therapies for Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency

Sophie Deng

$627K

R01NEI20122030
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Alapakkam Sampath

Physiology of Retinal Degeneration

Alapakkam P Sampath

$624K

R01NEI20252029
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David Williams

Outer Segment tip ingestion by the RPE

David S Williams

$475K

R01NEI20252028
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2024

Ava Bittner

Beacon Sensors and Telerehabilitation to Assess and Improve use of Devices (BeST-AID) for Low Vision

Ava K Bittner

$171K

R01NEI20232026
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Joseph Demer

Biomechanical Analysis in Strabismus Surgery

Joseph Louis Demer

$668K

R01NEI19912029
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Greg D. Field

High-throughput, high-resolution 3D measurement of ethologically relevant rodent behavior in a dynamic environment

Timothy William Dunn, Gregory Darin Field, Michael R Tadross

$363K

R34NIDA20242026
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Joel Zylberberg

Greg D. Field

Dynamic retinal coding in natural environments

Frederick M Rieke, Gregory Darin Field, Joel Zylberberg

$488K

R01NEI20242029
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Yi-Rong Peng

Transcriptional Control of Neuronal Position and Connection in the Retina

Yi-rong Peng

$394K

R01NEI20242029
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Edmund Tsui

UCLA/American Uveitis Society 2nd International Workshop on Objective Measures for Use in Clinical Trials

Edmund Tsui

$32K

R13NEI20242025
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2023

Greg D. Field

Receptive field coordination across mosaics of diverse retinal ganglion cell types in the mammalian retina

Gregory Darin Field

$353K

R01NEI20202025
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Greg D. Field

Visual signaling from retina to superior colliculus

Gregory Darin Field, Marc A Sommer

$524K

R01NEI20232028
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Edmund Tsui

Objective quantification of vitreous inflammation using optical coherence tomography

Edmund Tsui

$250K

R21NEI20232025
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Irena Tsui

Neonatal Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography to Assess the Effects of Postnatal Exposures on Retinal Development and Predict Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

Irena Tsui, Alison Chu

$407K

R01NEI20232027
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Gabriel Travis

Investigating the biology of the inherited human blindness gene RGR-opsin; understand role in vision loss and contribute to development of treatments.

Irish Research Council13686410
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Joel Zylberberg

Computational Neuroscience

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research CouncilCRC-2022-00277
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2022

Gordon Fain

Physiology of Photoreceptors

Gordon Lee Fain

$351K

R01NEI19842026
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Alapakkam Sampath

FASEB's The Biology and Chemistry of Vision Conference

Alapakkam P Sampath, Phyllis R Robinson

$0K

R13NEI20222026
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Alapakkam Sampath

Vision Science Training Program

Alapakkam P Sampath

$173K

T32NEI19752027
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David Williams

Cellular Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Disk Morphogenesis

David S Williams

$459K

R01NEI20222026
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Xian-Jie Yang

Metabolism and neuronal viability of the retina

Xian-jie Yang

$390K

R01NEI20162026
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Joel Zylberberg

Observable signatures of learning in neural circuits

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research CouncilRGPIN-2019-06379
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