Endowed Lectures
Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize
Recipients
2007
John Danias, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
For the published article:
“Complement Component 1Q(C1Q)Upregulation in Retina of Murine, Primate and Human Glaucomatous Eyes.”
Invest Ophthalol Vis Sci. 2006; 47(3): 1024-9
2006
Cynthia Lee Grosskreutz, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
For the published article:
“Calcineurin cleavage is triggered by elevated intraocular pressure, and calcineurin inhibition blocks retinal ganglion cell death in experimental glaucoma.”
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2005. 102(34): p. 12242-7
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2005
Francesca Cordeiro, MD, PhD
Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London
For the published article:
Real-Time Imaging of Single Nerve Cell Apoptosis in Retinal Neurodegeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Sep 7;101(36):13352-6. Epub 2004 Aug 30.
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2004
Simon W. M. John, PhD
Jackson Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bar Harbor
For the published article:
Modification of Ocular Defects in Mouse Developmental Glaucoma Models by Tyrosinase. Science. 2003 Mar 7;299(5612):1578-81.
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2003
Michael A. Kass, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
For the published article:
The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: A Randomized Trial Determines that Topical Ocular Hypotensive Medication Delays or Prevents the Onset of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol. 2002 Jun;120(6):701-13; discussion 829-30.
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2002
Joel S. Schuman, MD
New England Eye Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston
and
M. Elizabeth Fini, PhD
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine
For the published article:
Activation of a Tissue-Specific Stress Response in the Aqueous Outflow Pathway of the Eye Defines the Glaucoma Disease Phenotype.
Nat Med. 2001 Mar;7(3):304-9.
2001
No Prize Awarded
2000
Arthur H. Neufeld, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
For the published article:
Inhibition of Nitric-Oxide Sythase 2 by Aminoguanidine Provides Neuroprotection of Retinal Ganglion Cells in a Rat Model of Chronic Glaucoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Aug 17;96(17):9944-8.
1999
Martin Wax, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
For the published articles:
Anti-Ro/SS-A Positivity and Heat Shock Protein Antibodies in Patients with Normal Pressure Glaucoma. Am J Ophthalmol. 1998 Feb;125(2):145-57
Autoantibodies to Small Heat Shock Proeteins in Glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1998 Nov;39(12):2277-87.
Clinical and Ocular Histopathological Findings in a Patient with Normal-Pressure Glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol. 1998 Aug;116(8):993-1001.
1998
Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD
University of Iowa
For the published article:
Identification of a Gene That Causes Primary Open Angle Glaucoma. Science. 1997 Jan 31;275(5300):668-70.
1997
Joseph Caprioli, MD
University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine
For the published article:
Hyperthermia and Hypoxia Increase Tolerance of Retinal Ganglion Cells to Anoxia and Excitotoxicity. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1996 Nov;37(12):2376-81
1996
Harry A. Quigley, MD
Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
For the published article:
Retinal Ganglion Cell Death in Experimental Glaucoma and after Axotomy Occurs by Apoptosis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1995 Apr;36(5):774-86. and
Evan B. Dreyer, MD, PhD
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School
For the published article:
An Astrocytic Binding Site for Neuronal Thy-1 and Its Effect on Neurite Outgrowth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Nov 21;92(24):11195-9
1995
Clive Migdal, MD, FRCS, FRCOphth
The Western Eye Hospital, London
and
Walter Gregory, PhD
Guy’s Hospital, London
and
Roger Hitchings, FRCS, FRCOphth
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
For the published article:
Long-Term Functional Outcome after Early Surgery Compared with Laser and Medicine in Open-Angle Glaucoma. Ophthalmology. 1994 Oct;101(10):1651-6
