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TM2023THE YEAR IN REVIEW

2023 - THE YEAR IN REVIEWWEbiNARs January: GLAUCOMA & LIFESTYLE - with Aakriti Garg Shulka, MDSTART WITH THE YOUNG - with Jose Quiroz, MD, PhD in conjunction with the STEM Institute at CCNYFebruary: WHAT DO COLD HANDS HAVE TO DO WITH GLAUCOMA? - with Hillary Golden and Josef Flammer, MDMarch: THE PROMISE OF OPTIC NERVE REGENERATION - with Thomas V. Johnson, III, MD, PhDApril: THE BODY-EYE RELATIONSHIP - with Alon Harris, MS, PhD, FARVOJune: HOW TO SAVE THE SIGHT OF PATIENTS WITH GLAUCOMA WHILE MINIMIZING ADVERSE REACTION FROM EYE DROPS - with Miriam Kolko, MD, PhD and Gustavo De Moraes, MD, PhD, MPHSeptember: INSIGHTS INTO GLAUCOMA & WOMEN’S HEALTH: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF MENOPAUSE AND VISUAL FUNCTION - with Andrew Feola, PhD28TH ANNUAL sCIENTIFIC THINK TANKJune 8 and 9, NYC• Glaucoma Data Integration• Drug Re-Purposing in Glaucoma• Neuroprotection• Sex Hormones and Glaucoma• Non-IOP Factors of Importance in Glaucoma• What Can TGF Do To Help Patients, Researchers & Eyecare ProvidersTackle Glaucoma?4TH ANNUAL ART CHALLENgETwenty-seven amateur and professional artists shared their visions and raised$106,332.00 for glaucoma research

REsEARCH gRANTsResearch grants funded: $640,000Louis R. Pasquale, MD, FARVO, Mount Sinai Healthcare System: GENETIC PREDISPOSITION AND OPHTHALMIC OUTCOMES funded in part by Kenneth and Linda MortensonThomas V. Johnson, III, MD PhD, Johns Hopkins: OPTIC NERVE REGENERATION funded in part by Joe Rosen and Rajen SavjaniAlon Harris, MS, PhD, FARVO, Icahn School of Medicine: USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO REVEAL BLOOD PRESSURE’S ROLE IN GLAUCOMA PROGRESSIONQi N. Cui, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania: RE-PURPOSING AN “OLD” DRUG FOR A NEW INDICATION: ELUCIDATING THE PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL EFFECTS OF GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE 1 RECEPTOR AGONISTS TO TREAT GLAUCOMAJohn H. Fingert, PhD, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa: SEARCH FOR FUNCTIONAL LOXL1 RISK ALLELES WITH BIT-STARRLucy Q. Shen, MD, Harvard Medical School: VASCULAR GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE ASSOCIATION IN PRIMARY OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMATHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION / BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION GRANT AWARDAudrey Bernstein, PhD and Arunkumar Venkatesan, PhD, SUNY Upstate Medical University:INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF IMPAIRED MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS IN EXFOLIATION GLAUCOMATHE KUMAR MAHADEVA GRANT AWARDAdriana Di Polo, PhD, University of Montreal: UNCOVERING THE POTENTIAL OF PERICYTES AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR GLAUCOMASpecial 2-year grant, total $250,000THE BARRY FRIEDBERG AND CHARLOTTE MOSS AWARD Simon John PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center: NICOTINAMIDE AND PYRUVATE FOR NEUROENHANCEMENT IN OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA: A PHASE 2 RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL

pUbLisHEDAWARDED THE TGF (SPONSORED BY PATRICIA HILL) – RPB GLAUCOMA FELLOWSHIP Alanna E. James, MDUniversity of Southern CaliforniaAnthony Mukwaya, MDHarvard Medical SchoolGiselle N. Lynch, MD Columbia U. Medical CenterJohn Berdahl, MD is widely regarded as one of the leading international cataract surgeons, and one of the very few surgeons in the U.S. who is also fellowship trained in cornea, glaucoma, and refractive surgery. Dr. Berdahl has already performed more than 25,000 eye surgeries around the globe. His published work has primarily focused on the fundamental causes of glaucoma, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS), and astigmatism management during and after cataract surgery.Joseph F. Panarelli, MD specializes in the treatment of adult and pediatric glaucoma. He is is a member of the American Glaucoma Society and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He currently serves as the Associate Residency Program Director at the NIEE of Mount Sinai and as Glaucoma Fellowship Director, actively involved in graduate medical education. Dr. Panarelli’s research interests include development of surgical devices and techniques. Leangelo Hall, MDWills Eye HospitalViviana Barquet, MDWashington University St. Louis School of MedicineRPB-TGF CAREER ADVANCEMENT AWARDAyellet V. Segrè, MSc, PhDHarvard Medical SchoolAsst. Professor of OphthalmologyAsst. Scientist, Mass. Eye and EarjoiNED THE boARDResearch Grants 2019-2023Bi-Monthly E-NewsletterQuarterly Eye to Eye NewsletterDoctor, I Have A Question, 3rd Edition