Grants and Funding

  • Role of CD46 in pig retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)”.(2010) PI, Bellarmine University summer stipend, institutional grant in aid of research.
  • “The role of Snail in human proliferative vitreoretinopathy”.(2004) PI, Bellarmine University summer stipend, institutional grant in aid of research.
  • “Neuroplasticity Genes in Visual Cortex”, National Institutes of Health (NIH), R01 (2006-2010). Consultant, with Dr. Geroge Mower, PI (1R01EY016724).
  • Collaborator, "QSAR of Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists", KY-IDEA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (KY-INBRE) through the National Institutes of Health. (2004-2008)
  • "The Outer Blood Retinal Barrier in Xenopus laevis", Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network/National Institutes of Health. (2002-2003)
  • "Role of the PDZ3-SH3-GuK cluster of ZO-2 in tight junction function and regulation", Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network/National Institutes of Health. (Summer, 2002)
  • "Acquisition of transmission electron microscopy equipment for invertebrate and vertebrate pigment cell studies, undergraduate laboratory demonstrations, and undergraduate research", Co-PI, National Science Foundation. (2001-2003)
  • "Regulation of the Outer Blood-Retinal Barrier." National Eye Institute, Public Health Service. (1999-2002)
  • "Regulation of Outer Blood-Retinal Barrier by RPE Tight Junctions." Fight for Sight, the Research Division of Prevent Blindness America. (1999-2000)
  • "Migratory responses of retinal pigment epithelium to different extracellular matrix environments." Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. (1996-1997)
  • "Apical membrane protein expression during postnatal development in the retinal pigment epithelium of normal and dystrophic rats." Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. (1995-1996)