Appointments and Awards

2006

Prof Hugh Taylor AC
Mectizan Award

Tien Wong
Novartis prize in the Diabetes Young Investigator Category
Alcon Research Institute Award
Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research

Jill Keeffe
Appointed Vice-President of the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)

Jonathan Crowston
Appointed Professor to the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne

Rasik Vajpayee
Appointed Professor to the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne

2005

Professor Wong
Winner of the Prestigious Australian University of Melbourne's Woodward Medal for Science and Technology.

CERA Staff Awards:

• Research: Dr Gabriella Tikellis
• Travel: Dr Heathcote Wright
• Administration: Ms Lisa Kearns

2004

The federal government awards the largerst grant ever to the Vision CRC, the Centre for Eye Research Australia as a core participant

CERA Staff Awards:

• Research: Ms Pam Garoufalis
• Travel: Dr Matt Chamberlain
• Administration: Mr Colin Miles

2003

Dr Richard Le Mesurier
appointed Wester Pacific Regional Co-ordinator as part of the Vision 2020 Intiative

Vision CRC is launched

Dr Tien Wong
joins the Centre for Eye Research Australia

CERA Staff Awards:

• Research: Ms Tamara Pollard
• Travel: Dr Niro Narendran
• Administration: Ms Fiona Warden

2002

Professor Hugh Taylor AC
received the Mildred Weisenfeld Award

WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Blindness designation renewed for a third time to 2006

Victorian Government granted $1.8m over three years to Vision 2020 Australia to fund The Vision Initiative, a program that grew directly out of the Centre for Eye Research Australia's research findings and public health and health promotion activities.

Dr Robyn Guymer
received the prestigious Amgen Medical Researcher Award

Dr Deb Colville
receieves the AMA Woman in Medicine Award

In 2002 the Eye Health Promotion Unit of the centre was awarded a Public Health and Development Award for Research Excellence for its work in the prevention of vision loss from diabetes.

Professor Hugh Taylor AC
receieves the Vision Australia Foundation Award for 2002.

Ms Tamara Pollard
recognised as the Top Statistics Student for the 2002 Master of Public Health course.

CERA Staff Awards:

• Research: Dr Ecosse Lamoureux
• Travel: Dr Amy Cohn
• Administration: Ms Judy Carrigan

2001

Two papers from VECAT were selected as being in the nine most important papers out of over 5,000 presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in 2001.

2000

Vision 2020: The Right ot Sight Australia launched.

1999

The Epidemiology Research Unit, in conjunction with the Eye Health Promotion Unit, received the 1999 Public Health and Development Award for Research Excellence.