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What powers the research

Grants & awards

New and competitively renewed awards to institute faculty, 2022–2026.

30 NIH grants · 5 non-NIH grants · 0 awards · sourced from NIH Reporter and ORCID · refreshed daily

2026

11

Greg D. Field

CRCNS Research Proposal: Optimal Information processing via cell types

John Pearson, Gregory Darin Field

$1.22M

R01NEI2026–2030
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Yi-Rong Peng

Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Postnatal Development of Foveal Cone Photoreceptors

Yi-rong Peng

$582K

R01NEI2026–2030
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Ava Bittner

Deep Learning for low Vision Enhancement (DELVE)

Ava K Bittner, Sophia Ying Wang

$542K

R34NEI2026–2028
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Greg D. Field

Collaborative Research: CRCNS Research Proposal: Learning the structure of neural population encodings from multi-embedding manifolds and dynamics

U.S. National Science Foundation2605763
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Yi-Rong Peng

Greg D. Field

Large-Scale Identification of Cis-Regulatory Modules for Targeting Retinal Cell Types in Primates

Yi-rong Peng, Shannon Elizabeth Boye, Gregory Darin Field, Alexander C Huk

$1.79M

U01NINDS2026–2031
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Greg D. Field

Mapping the retinal projectome in primates

Gregory Darin Field, Hong-wei Dong, Alexander C Huk

$2.69M

R01NEI2026–2030
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Anne Coleman

Anthony Aldave

Clinician-Scientist Eye Training (C-SET) Program

Anne Louise Coleman, Anthony John Aldave

$595K

K12NEI2026–2031
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Greg D. Field

Elucidating Novel Features of Visual Processing and Physiological Connectivity from Retina to Primary Visual Cortex

Gregory Darin Field, Alexander C Huk, Steven Warren Zucker

$2.70M

R01NEI2020–2030
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Edmund Tsui

Researching OCT Biomarkers in UveitiS clinical Trials (ROBUST)

Edmund Tsui, Michael M Altaweel, Douglas A Jabs

$723K

R01NEI2026–2031
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David Williams

Cellular mechanisms of MYO7A in the retina

Brian A Link, David S Williams

$591K

R01NEI2026–2030
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Joel Zylberberg

Why are there so many retinal ganglion cell types?: An information-theoretic framework to understand the tradeoff between computations performed at the sensory periphery vs the central nervous system

United States Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA9550261B113

2025

5

Adrian Au

Genetic Variation in AMD Progression and Treatment Response

Adrian C Au

$244K

K23NEI2025–2030
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David Williams

Joseph Demer

Greg D. Field

Xian-Jie Yang

Vision Research Core at UCLA

David S Williams, Gregory Darin Field

$630K

P30NEI1997–2029
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Sophie Deng

Development of Stem Cell-based Therapies for Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency

Sophie Deng

$627K

R01NEI2012–2030
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Alapakkam Sampath

Physiology of Retinal Degeneration

Alapakkam P Sampath

$624K

R01NEI2025–2029
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David Williams

Outer Segment tip ingestion by the RPE

David S Williams

$475K

R01NEI2025–2028
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2024

6

Joel Zylberberg

Greg D. Field

Dynamic retinal coding in natural environments

Frederick M Rieke, Gregory Darin Field, Joel Zylberberg

$488K

R01NEI2024–2029
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Edmund Tsui

UCLA/American Uveitis Society 2nd International Workshop on Objective Measures for Use in Clinical Trials

Edmund Tsui

$32K

R13NEI2024–2025
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Joseph Demer

Biomechanical Analysis in Strabismus Surgery

Joseph Louis Demer

$668K

R01NEI1991–2029
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Yi-Rong Peng

Transcriptional Control of Neuronal Position and Connection in the Retina

Yi-rong Peng

$394K

R01NEI2024–2029
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Alapakkam Sampath

Molecular Basis of Photoreceptor Wiring

Kirill A. Martemyanov, Alapakkam P Sampath

$607K

R01NEI2017–2028
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Greg D. Field

High-throughput, high-resolution 3D measurement of ethologically relevant rodent behavior in a dynamic environment

Timothy William Dunn, Gregory Darin Field, Michael R Tadross

$363K

R34NIDA2024–2026
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2023

7

Ava Bittner

Beacon Sensors and Telerehabilitation to Assess and Improve use of Devices (BeST-AID) for Low Vision

Ava K Bittner

$427K

R01NEI2023–2028
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Greg D. Field

Receptive field coordination across mosaics of diverse retinal ganglion cell types in the mammalian retina

Gregory Darin Field

$353K

R01NEI2020–2025
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Irena Tsui

Neonatal Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography to Assess the Effects of Postnatal Exposures on Retinal Development and Predict Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

Irena Tsui, Alison Chu

$407K

R01NEI2023–2027
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Greg D. Field

Visual signaling from retina to superior colliculus

Gregory Darin Field, Marc A Sommer

$524K

R01NEI2023–2028
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Joel Zylberberg

Computational Neuroscience

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research CouncilCRC-2022-00277
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Edmund Tsui

Objective quantification of vitreous inflammation using optical coherence tomography

Edmund Tsui

$250K

R21NEI2023–2025
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Gabriel Travis

Investigating the biology of the inherited human blindness gene RGR-opsin; understand role in vision loss and contribute to development of treatments.

Irish Research Council13686410
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2022

6

Xian-Jie Yang

Metabolism and neuronal viability of the retina

Xian-jie Yang

$390K

R01NEI2016–2026
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Alapakkam Sampath

Vision Science Training Program

Alapakkam P Sampath

$173K

T32NEI1975–2027
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Alapakkam Sampath

FASEB's The Biology and Chemistry of Vision Conference

Alapakkam P Sampath, Phyllis R Robinson

$0K

R13NEI2022–2026
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David Williams

Cellular Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Disk Morphogenesis

David S Williams

$459K

R01NEI2022–2026
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Joel Zylberberg

Observable signatures of learning in neural circuits

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research CouncilRGPIN-2019-06379
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Gordon Fain

Physiology of Photoreceptors

Gordon Lee Fain

$351K

R01NEI1984–2026
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