Research and Grants

Active

NIH RO1 EY032898 (09/2022~06/2027, role: PI), Title: The role of transducin- and melanopsin-independent phototransduction in postnatal retinal development.

NIH RO1 EY034219 (09/2022~06/2027, role: PI), Title: The role of wide-field amacrine cells in mammalian retina.

UTHealth-Houston RO1 EY024376 subcontract (05/2023~04/2025, role: co-PI), Title: Role of T-box transcriptional regulators in the development of RGC subtypes.

Retina Research Foundation Research Grant (01/2024~12/2024, role: PI), Title: Novel human Oguchi disease mechanisms.

UT STARs (12/2023~11/2026, role: PI), Title: Heterotrimeric G-protein signaling in Vision: a genetic, biochemical, electrophysiological, and behavioral approach.

Completed

Alice McPherson Retina Research Foundation Endowed Chair (01/2014-02/2023)

NIH RO1 EY013811 (07/2002~12/2019, role: PI), Title: Recovery of Phototransduction.

NIH RO1 EY026930 (09/2017~08/2022, role: contact PI), Title: Mechanisms, functions, and utility of neuronal oscillation in deafferentated retina.

NIH RO1 EY022228 (08/2012~07/2017, role: PI), Title: The role of Gbeta5 and R7RGS protein in vision.

Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., Career Development Award (07/2002~04/2005, role: PI). Mouse models of human Oguchi disease.

Knights Templar Eye Foundation (2002, role: PI), Title: Generation of a mouse model of human stationary night blindness.

Karl Kirchgessner Foundation (2003, role: PI), Title: The role of caspase inhibition in hereditary and light-dependent photoreceptor degeneration.