Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has granted Cynthia Toth, MD, of Duke University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology an RPB Stein Innovation Award. This award provides flexible funding to scientists actively engaged in research with the goal of understanding the visual system and the diseases that compromise its function. She will receive up to $300,000 over three years. New technologies and cutting-edge research that apply to blindness are supported through this award. Toth is one of 29 researchers who have received the award since it was established in 2014.
The RPB Stein Innovation Award funding will support Toth’s work to advance the use of rapid, non-invasive imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) to determine eye and brain injury. These OCT advancements will improve patient access to advanced imaging and clinicians’ ability to find and treat eye and brain injuries.
“I am grateful to RPB for their ongoing generous support of forward-looking research at Duke Eye Center. I am proud and honored to receive this Stein Innovation Award and funding to further my translational research in Innovative Rapid Bedside Assessment of Retinal Anatomy and Vascular Flow,” said Toth.
Since it was founded in 1960, RPB has channeled more than $368 million into eye research. As a result, RPB has been identified with nearly every major breakthrough in vision research in that time. For information on RPB’s grants program, listings of RPB institutional and individual grantees, and findings generated by these awards, go to rpbusa.org.