The National Foundation for Eye Research

Kinoshita Lectureship

Cataract Research Award
Kinoshita Lectureship

Cataract Research Award

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, WV
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 and Ophthalmology University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE
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
2010	Thomas W White, Ph.D. Department of Physiology and Biophysics State University of New York Stony Brook, NY

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Kinoshita Lectureship

This prestigious international award was established in 1989 to honor Dr. Jin H. Kinoshita for his outstanding contributions to vision research. The award is given for meritorious research that contributes to the understanding of the etiology and prevention of cataract development. The recipient presents a lecture of his or her research at the biennial international U.S. Japan Cooperative Cataract Research Meeting and is awarded an honorarium of $15,000 and a plaque.

Past winners:

1991	Leo T. Chylack, MD Professor and Director Center for Ophthalmic Research Brigham & Womens Hospital Harvard University Boston, MA
1993	J. Samuel Zigler, Jr., Ph.D. Chief Laboratory of Mechanisms of Ocular Diseases National Eye Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
1995	Peter F. Kador, Ph.D. Chief, Laboratory of Ocular Therapeutics National Eye Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
1997	Abraham Spector, Ph.D. Professor and Director Ophthalmology Research Columbia University New York, NY
1999	Joseph Horwitz, Ph.D. Professor Jules Stein Eye Institute UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA
2001	James L. Rae, Ph.D. Professor Department of Physiology Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
2004	Kenshi Satoh, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus ScienceUniversity of Tokyo Chiba, Japan
2005	Joram Piatigorsky, Ph.D. Chief, Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology National Eye Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
2007	Frank Giblin, Ph.D. Director, Oakland Eye Institute National Eye Institute Oakland University Rochester, MI
2009	Marjorie Lou, Ph.D. Willa Cather Professor of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska at Lincoln Lincoln, NE

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