Sinha Awarded RPB Career Advancement Award

Dr. Raunak Sinha

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is pleased to announce that Raunak Sinha, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health has been granted a $150,000 RPB Career Advancement Award to support eye research.

The RPB Career Advancement Award was established in 2020 for early- to mid-career vision researchers who have already received their first independent federal grant – the National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 – and are collecting new data to apply for a second R01. This period has been identified as a critical gap in the funding pipeline for vision researchers. A total of 14 Career Advancement Awards have been granted to vision scientists at universities across the country.

The Sinha lab will use this funding to study the functional maturation of photoreceptors in the primate fovea, a specialized region in our eyes responsible for 20/20 vision.

Since it was founded in 1960, RPB has channeled more than $424 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, click here.