Current project funding

Sarah K. DeCoizart TENTH Perpetual Charitable Trust (January 2018-December 2019)

• Elimination of an Inherited Form of Blindness in the Endangered American Red Wolf (Canis rufus).

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.

​​More information on the ACVO VAF

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

Previous project funding

American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Vision for Animals Foundation (study; March 2016-October 2017)
and Stokes Pharmacy (medication)

• Therapeutic efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil in the treatment of SARDS in canine patients.​​