We are pleased to announce that several Duke trainees have received 2021 ARVO travel grants! As of 2019, the Foundation has supported travel expenses for over 1,200 young researchers from around the world to report their work at the ARVO Annual Meeting. The Foundation currently offers 34 named travel grants that support over 185 researchers annually.
Dennis Akrobetu (Medical Student) received the Gerhard Zinser Memorial Travel Grant for his project titled "Assessment of Retinal Microvascular Alterations in Individuals with Amnestic and Non-amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography" under the mentorship of Sharon Fekrat, MD, FACS and Dilraj Grewal, MD.
Jennifer Chang (Medical Student) received the Knights Templar Eye Foundation Travel Grant for her project titled “Cost Comparison of Reusable versus Disposable Equipment for Retinopathy of Prematurity Screening Rounds” under the mentorship of S. Grace Prakalapakorn, MD, MPH and Sharon F. Freedman, MD with additional support from Dr. Evan Myers, MD, MPH. 
Priya Gupta, MD (Resident) received the Retina Research Foundation/Joseph M. and Eula C. Lawrence Travel Grant for her project titled "A Complex Retinal Dystrophy-obesity Phenotype is Associated with Compound Heterozygous Loss-of-function TUB Gene Mutations" under the mentorship of Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, MS, FARVO.
Cason Robbins (Medical Student) received the Retina Research Foundation/Joseph M. and Eula C. Lawrence Travel Grant for his project titled "Analyzing the Retinal and Choroidal Vasculature and Structure in Cognitively Healthy Individuals at Higher Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease using a Convolutional Neural Network" under the mentorship of Sharon Fekrat, MD, FACS and Dilraj Grewal, MD.
Camille Robinson (Medical Student) received received the Knights Templar Eye Foundation Travel Grant for her project titled "Glaucoma Knowledge and Disease Severity in a Veteran Population with Poor Adherence." Her mentors on the project are Jullia Rosdahl, MD PhD and Kelly Muir, MD, as well as Duke glaucoma fellow Andrew Williams, MD.