The American Academy of Ophthalmologists and Research to Prevent Blindness teamed up to offer a new grant category for those conducting population-based research on blindness prevention and ophthalmology using the Academy's IRIS Registry database.
The IRIS Registry is a clinical database with data on 41.2 million patients. The grants will fund six studies over the course of two years, each awarding projects $35,000 to use the IRIS Registry's analytic capabilities.
"In a short amount of time, the IRIS Registry has become a sought-after tool for data analytics, producing insights into real-world practice patterns and clinical outcomes," said David Parke II, MD, CEO for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. "The next step is to develop opportunities for engaging clinical researchers to analyze this unique, growing resource to reveal patterns of disease, their determinants and approaches to prevention and treatment that advance the ophthalmic profession to the benefit of our patients — present and future."
The award is open to individual researchers in ophthalmology, population health, epidemiology and related fields at academic institutions. Applicants have until Jan. 31, 2018 to apply for the first round of three grants. Another round of grants will be assigned in 2019.
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