Grants
NVRI research efforts are made possible thanks to funding support from government, industry and philanthropic grants
NVRI research efforts are made possible thanks to funding support from government, industry and philanthropic grants
| Source | Title | Funding Period |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Development Grant – Retinal implant with closed-loop, multichannel stimulation to improve visual acuity | 2022-2024 |
| Australian Research Council | DECRA Fellowship, Dr Wei Tong | 2022-2024 |
| Australian Research Council | Discovery Grant – Diamond electrodes for bimodal cellular control | 2021-2023 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Ideas Grant – Hybrid optical-electrical stimulation for precise neural stimulation | 2021-2024 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Ideas Grant – Simulating and stimulating the Blood-Brain-Barrier: a platform for investigating non-pharmaceutical Alzheimer’s therapy | 2021-2024 |
| Lions Club of Victoria | Lions NVRI Vision Fellowship | 2021-2023 |
| University of Melbourne | MDHS Diversity & Inclusion Grant | 2021 |
| Dementia Australia Research Foundation | Breaking down barriers to accessing dementia-friendly eyecare | 2021 |
| Australian Research Council | ARC Centre of Excellence – Integrative Brain Function | 2014 – 2021 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Development Grant – Development of a high acuity retinal prosthesis | 2017 – 2019 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Project Grant – Next generation cybernetics: Long term carbon fibre dual stimulation/recording arrays for closed loop neural implants | 2016 – 2019 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Project Grant – Neuro-feedback for improved efficacy of retinal prosthesis | 2016 – 2019 |
| Lions Club of Victoria | Half funding for three year postdoctoral position | 2016 – 2018 |
| LEW Carty Charitable Fund | Half funding for three year postdoctoral position | 2016 – 2018 |
| Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation | Funds to purchase electrode puller | 2016 |
| Lions Club of Victoria | Lions Research Fellow | 2011 – 2016 |
| John Nicola Foundation | Funds for staff travel | 2015 – 2016 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Project Grant – Mechanisms and pathways to saccadic suppression in primate brain | 2012 – 2015 |
| University of Melbourne | Melbourne Neuroscience Institute new initiative fund | 2015 |
| LEW Carty Charitable Fund | Funds to purchase multi-channel microelectrode arrays | 2015 |
| ANZ Trustees | William Buckland Foundation – funds to support essential intracellular recording equipment | 2014 |
| Defence Science and Technology Organisation | Night vision goggle testing | 2013 – 2014 |
| Australian Research Council | ARC Fund for the Bionic Eye – Bionic Vision Australia | 2010 – 2014* |
| Sandringham Club | Funds for vision research | 2013 |
| CASS Foundation | Travel Grant – Dr Adam Morris to attend Society for Neuroscience, USA | 2013 |
| LEW Carty Charitable Fund | Funds to purchase electrical stimulation equipment | 2013 |
| Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation | Funds to assist with purchase of confocal microscope | 2013 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Project Grant – Determining the electrical stimulation parameters required to program the bionic eye to effect vision | 2010 – 2013* |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Project Grant – Measuring and modelling visual cortical plasticity | 2009 – 2013* |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | CJ Martin Fellowship – Dr Adam Morris | 2009 – 2013* |
| Australian Research Council | ARC Centre of Excellence – Vision Science | 2005 – 2013* |
| Eirene Lucas Foundation | Funds to assist with purchase of confocal microscope | 2012 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | Project Grant – Saccadic eye movements and the neural basis of visual perception | 2009 – 2012* |
*brought to the NVRI in 2011
Your tax-deductible donation will help thousands of vulnerable and low-income community members receive the quality eye care all Australians deserve. With your support, we can continue to provide optometry services to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as well as outreach services such as providing eyecare to outreach services such as providing eyecare to people experiencing homelessness or to our Home Support Program for limited-mobility patients.
You may also like to support world-leading eye health research through the National Vision Research Institute. The NVRI is conducting research that will lead to the preservation of sight and the prevention of blindness. Current projects include the development of a bionic eye, understanding the flow of vision information in the brain and a range of projects focussed on eye health and disease.
