The National Foundation for Eye Research

This international award recognizes promising lens researchers who have conducted significant scientific work. The award consists of a plaque and a $2,500 honorarium that is annually presented at the Lens Business Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting.

Past winners:

1999	Dan Boyle, Ph.D. Division of Biology Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas
2000	K. Krishna Sharma, Ph.D. Department of Ophthalmology University of Missouri Columbia, MO
2001	Alan Shiels, Ph.D. Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science Washington University St Louis, MO
2002	Marc Kantorow, Ph.D. Department of Biology West Virginia University Morgantown, DE
2003	Ales Cvekl, Ph.D. Department of Ophthalmology Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, NY
2004	Usha P. Andley, Ph.D. Department of Ophthalmology Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO
2005	J. Fielding Hejtmancik, M.D., Ph.D. Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch National Eye Institute Bethesda, MD
2006	David Wan-Cheng Li, Ph.D. Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology & Visual Science University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE 68198
2007	Roger Truscott, Ph.D. Save Sight Institute University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008	Kirsten Lampi, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Biosciences Oregon Health Sciences University Portland, OR
2009	Xiaohua Gong, Ph.D. School of Optometry University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA