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Sayer Vision Research Lecture Series

In 2006, Dr. Jane Sayer, a National Institute of Health (NIH) research scientist in National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), established the Sayer Vision Research Lecture and Award at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), in partnership with the National Eye Institute (NEI) at NIH, to honor her family and the memory of her parents, Winthrop and Laura Sayer.

The lecture and award series provides an opportunity for honorees to explore areas of interdisciplinary collaboration, such as angiogenesis, that may lead to advances in diverse medical specialties with relevance to vision research. A number of factors place vision science in a position for major advances in the near future-including the large number of identified genes relevant to eye disease and the relative ease with which pathology can be visualized and documented in the eye.

Upcoming Lecture

Past Lectures

April 16, 2012 - Yoshiki Sasai, M.D., Ph.D., laureate of the 2012 Inoue Prize for Science
"Self-Organization of Neural Structures in Three-Dimensional Stem Cell Cultures"

June 30, 2011 - Napoleone Ferrara, M.D., winner of the 2010 Lasker Award
"Basic Science and Clinical Application of VEGF"

March 10, 2010 - Roger Tsien, Ph.D., winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
"Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors"

October 20, 2008 - Sally Temple, Ph.D.
"Stem Cell Potency - Finding Embryonic-like Cells in the Aged Adult Retina"

October 5, 2007- Krzysztof Palczewski, Ph.D.
"G protein-coupled receptor signaling in phototransduction"

May 25, 2006- Martin Friedlander, M.D., Ph.D.
"Stemming Vision Loss with Stem Cells"