James Akula, PhD,  is the subcontractor PI for an NIDDK R44 (Small Business Innovation Research) grant in the amount of $39,156 over one year for the project, "Measurement of retinal nerves and blood vessels as markers for Type I diabetes." He is working with PI Mircea Mujat of Physical Sciences, Inc. 

Gena Heidary, MD, PhD, received a 2018 Discovery Award in the amount of $25,000 over one year from the Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation in support of her ongoing Saccadic Vector Optokinetic Perimetry (SVOP) studies. 

Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD, received a 2018 Discovery Award in the amount of $25,000 over one year from the Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation in support of her research on concussion and learning disability.

David Sullivan, PhD, received an NIH R21 grant in the amount of $541,750 over two years to evaluate cationic amphiphilic drugs for the treatment for meibomian gland dysfunction. Additionally, he received a sponsored research agreement for $59,480 from Allysta Pharmaceutical to explore a hormone's effect on human meibomian gland epithelial cells.

Mary Whitman, MD, PhD, received a 2018 Discovery Award in the amount of $25,000 over one year from the Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation in support of her ongoing project, "Genetic causes of ptosis and oculomotor synkinesis."