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Principal Investigator
Christine Wildsoet
PhD, Dip Appl Sc (Optom), BSc (Hons), FAAO, Associate Professor in Optometry & Vision Science
Email: wildsoet@uclink.berkeley.edu

Other Funding Sources & Projects

• 1998 NECO: Diurnal IOP rhythms - Could altered rhythmicity contribute to excessive eye enlargement in human myopia? (C Scott, CF Wildsoet).
  
• 1999 NECO: Do idiopathic nystagmus subjects show evidence for meridional
  emmetropization? (R Held, C Wildsoet, E Weissberg)
  
• 2000 UC-Berkeley Junior Faculty Research Grant: Chromatic aberration – does it provide directional information about defocus for emmetropization?
  
• 2000 UC-Berkeley Research Enabling Grant: The mechanism underlying
  choroidal blood flow changes during experimental emmetropization in the
  chick and their relationship to choroidal thickness changes.
  
• 2000 UC-Berkeley Junior Faculty Research Grant: Anisomyopes – A potential source of new clues to how myopia (short-sightedness) develops in humans?
  
• 2001 UC-Berkeley Research Enabling Grant: Albino chickens – Do they represent an adequate model for studying emmmetropization in human albinism?
  
• 2001 Pacific Rim Research Program: Diurnal IOP and axial growth rhythms – Do they hold the key to the excessive eye enlargement that underlies myopia (shortsightedness)?
  
• 2001 Hellman Grant: The how and why of ocular growth regulation: Some lessons from the chick and their significance for human myopia (short-sightedness).
  
• 2001 UC-Berkeley Faculty Research Grant: Albino chickens: A new model for studying refractive error abnormalities in human albinism.
  
• 2002 UC-Berkeley Junior Faculty Research Grant: The role of sharp vision in the regulation of eye growth and focussing errors in young eyes – A study using young chicks
  
• 2002 UC-Berkeley Teaching Grant: The establishment of an archived electronic collection of teaching material.
  
• 2002 UC-Berkeley Faculty Research Grant: How accurate is accommodation through bifocal soft contact lenses?
  
• 2002 Spanish Ministry of Science & Technology: Role of ocular aberrations in the development and compensation of refractive errors. (collaborative grant, PI: Susan Marcos).