Dr Zhang has been awarded $45,000 under the new Grant Family Fund for early career macular disease researchers.
MDFA has awarded more than $1 million in research funding to eight promising projects, in the search for a cure for macular diseases.
MDFA funded researcher, Dr Yvette Wooff is investigating cell particles called extracellular vesicles (EV), which could help develop novel gene therapies for dry AMD.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of MDFA’s Research Grants Program, this free publication introduces you to the talented researchers your donations have funded since 2011.
An MDFA Research Grant allowed Professor Mark Gillies to expand his Fight Retinal Blindness! project across the globe.
MDFA funding allowed Prof Paul Mitchell to build upon his landmark Blue Mountains Eye Study.
Research reveals importance of gene variation for AMD While the exact cause of age-related macular
MDFA Patron Ita Buttrose AC OBE calls on Government to reject Medicare eye injection rebate cut.
An additional 47,000 Australians will experience severe vision loss or blindness if a proposed cut to the Medicare rebate for sight-saving eye injections is approved, warns MDFA Patron Ita Buttrose AC OBE.