Current project funding
Sarah K. DeCoizart TENTH Perpetual Charitable Trust (January 2018-December 2020)
- Elimination of an Inherited Form of Blindness in the Endangered American Red Wolf (Canis rufus).
National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute, K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development Award (Mowat, March 2019-February 2023).
- Responses of the Macula to Toxicant Injury: The Role(s) of PGC1α Isoforms in Photoreceptor Neuroprotection.
Additional funding sources:
NCSU Comparative Medicine Institute (Translational Genetics and Genomics) - summer internship program 2016, 2017
Private donations through the NCSU NCVMF Retinal Research Fund
NCSU Comparative Medicine Institute (Translational Genetics and Genomics) - summer internship program 2016, 2017
Private donations through the NCSU NCVMF Retinal Research Fund
Previous project funding
American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Vision for Animals Foundation (November 2015-October 2018)
- Defining the effect of immune-mediated damage to the pineal gland in the etiopathogenesis of sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome (SARDS) in dogs.
American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Vision for Animals Foundation (study; March 2016-October 2017)
and Stokes Pharmacy (medication)
and Stokes Pharmacy (medication)
- Therapeutic efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil in the treatment of SARDS in canine patients.
