Award of Merit in Retina Research – The Retina Society

2025    Christine A. Curcio, PhD
2024    Anat Loewenstein, MD
2023    SriniVas R. Sadda, MD
2022    Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD
2021    Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA
2020    Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD
2019    James Fujimoto, PhD
2018    Paul Sternberg, Jr., MD
2017    Michael Klein, MD
2016    Steve Charles, MD
2015    Thomas W. Gardner, MD
2014    Peter A. Campochiaro, MD
2013    Cynthia A. Toth, MD
2012    Richard Spaide, MD
2011    Michael Marmor, MD
2010    Eliot Berson, MD
2009    Mark Humayun, MD, PhD
2008    William Tasman, MD
2007    Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD
2006    Carol Shields, MD
2005    Anthony Adamis, MD
2004    Frederick Ferris, III, MD, and Emily Chew, MD
2003    Stephen Ryan, MD
2002    Bradley Straatsma, MD
2001    no award given
2000    Ronald Klein, MD, MPH, and Barbara Klein, MD, MPH
1999    Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD
1998    Joe Hollyfield, PhD
1997    Stuart L. Fine, MD
1996    Gabriel Coscas, MD
1995    D. Jackson Coleman, MD
1994    Francois DeLori, PhD and C. Katherine Dorey, PhD
1993    W. Richard Green, MD
1992    Ingrid Kreissig, MD
1991    Ronald G. Michels, MD and Burt M. Glaser, MD
1990    Matthew M. LaVail, PhD
1989    Matthew D. Davis, MD
1988    Harvey A. Lincoff, MD
1987    Harris Ripps, PhD
1986    J. Donald Gass, MD
1985    Oleg Pomerantzeff, D Eng
1984    Werner K. Noell, MD
1983    Arnall Patz, MD
1982    Harry G. Sperling, PhD
1981    John E. Dowling, PhD
1980    Robert Machemer, MD
1979    Richard W. Young, MD
1978    Charles L. Schepens, MD

Kayser International Award in Retina Research – International Sociey for Eye Research (ISER)

2024    Hendrik P. N. Scholl, MD, MA, PhD
2022/2023 Steven J. Fliesler, PhD
2020    Samuel Miao-Sin Wu, PhD
2018    Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD
2016    King-Wai Yau, PhD
2014    Robert E. Marc, PhD
2012    Robert E. Anderson, MD, PhD
2010    Frank Werblin, PhD
2008    John Dowling, PhD
2007    no award given
2006    Dean Bok, PhD
2005    Judah Folkman, MD, and Gary W. Abrams, MD
2004    Gregory Acland, DMV, Gustavo Aquirre, DMV, Jean Bennett, PhD, William Hausworth, PhD, Samuel Jacobson, MD, and Albert Maquire, MD
2003    Eugene deJuan, MD, and Wallace Founds, MD
2002    Dennis Davey, PhD
2001    Hilel Lewis, MD
2000    Debora Farber, PhD
1999    Tatsuo Hirose, MD, and Akitoshi Yoshida, MD
1998    Anita Hentrickson, PhD
1997    Jerry Shields, MD
1996    Akimichi Kaneko, MD
1995    Enrique Malbran, MD
1994    Alan C. Bird, MD
1993    Thaddeus Dryja, MD
1992    Alan M. Laties, MD
1991    John P. Sarks, FRCS, and Shirley H. Sarks, FRCS
1990    Neville N. Osborne, PhD, and Berndt J. Ehinger, MD
1989    David Hubel, MD
1988    Denis Baylor, MD
1987    H. Gobind Khorana, PhD
1986    Shomi Bhattacharya, PhD, and Alan F. Wright

RRF Pyron Award – American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS)

2025    Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD
2024    Anat Loewenstein, MD
2023    Eugene de Juan, MD
2022    Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD
2021    Cynthia A. Toth, MD
2020    Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD
2019    Joan M. O’Brien, MD
2018    Joan W. Miller, MD
2017    Paul A. Sieving, MD, PhD
2016    Donald J. D’Amico, MD
2015    Gary W. Abrams, MD
2014    Andrew Schachat, MD
2013    George A. Williams, MD
2012    Daniel F. Martin, MD
2011     Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, and Albert Maguire, MD
2010    Julia Haller, MD
2009    C. Pat Wilkinson, MD
2008    Susan Bressler, MD, and Neil Bressler, MD
2007    Carmen Puliafito, MD
2006    Brooks McCuen, MD
2005    Mark Blumenkranz, MD
2004    Morton F. Goldberg, MD
2003    Lloyd Aiello, MD
2002    Michael Trese, MD
2001    Yasuo Tano, MD
2000   Gholan Peyman, MD

Helmerich Award for Outstanding Achievement in Retina Research – Changed to Pyron Award in 1999

1999    Harry W. Flynn, MD
1998    Stanley Chang, MD
1997    Thomas M. Aaberg, MD
1996    Robert Watzke, MD
1995    George F. Hilton, MD
1992    Christina Enroth-Cugell, MD
1991    Albert Aguayo, FRSC
1990    Seymour Benzer, MD
1989    Torsten N. Wiesel, MD
1988    Alan L. Hodgkin, FRSC

RRF Gonin Lectureship – Club Jules Gonin

2024    Anat Loewenstein, MD
2020/2022  Ramin Tadayoni, MD, PhD
2018    Morten D. de la Cour, MD
2016    Thomas W. Gardner, MD
2014    Frank G. Holz, MD
2012    José-Alain Sahel, MD
2010    Anthony Adamis, MD, and Napoleone Ferrera, MD
2008    Einar Stefánsson, MD
2006    Alain Gaudric, MD
2004    Leonidas Zografos, MD
2002    Joan Miller, MD
2000    Veit Peter Gabel, MD
1998    Peter Wiedemann, MD
1996    Evangelos Gragoudas, MD

Gonin Medalist – University of Lausanne, International Council of Ophthalmology

2022    Stanley Chang, MD
2018    Jean-Jacques De Laey, MD PhD
2014    Alice R. McPherson, MD
2010    Alan C. Bird, MD
2006    Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS
2002    Gottfried Naumann, MD
1998    Robert Machemer, MD
1994    Harold L. Ridley
1990    Barrie R. Jones
1986    Akika Nakajima
1982    Alfred Edward Maumenee
1978    Norman Henry Ashton
1974    David G. Cogan
1970    Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath
1966    Jules François
1962    Hans Goldmann
1958    Alan Woods
1954    Stewart Duke-Elder
1950    Hermenegilde Arruga
1945    Paul Haillart
1941    Alfred Vogt

Charles L. Schepens, MD/AAO Award (RRF in collaboration with the  Schepens International Society)

2025    Lee M. Jampol, MD
2024    Steven T. Charles, MD
2023    Emily Y. Chew, MD
2022    Philip J. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD
2021    Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD
2020   Julia A. Haller, MD
2019    Jean Bennett, MD, PhD and Albert Maguire, MD
2018    Joan W. Miller, MD
2017    Frederick L. Ferris, III, MD
2016    Harry W. Flynn, Jr., MD
2015    Mark S. Blumenkranz, MD
2014    Jerry A. Shields, MD
2013    Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD
2012    Alan C. Bird, MD
2011    Stanley Chang, MD
2010   William Tasman, MD
2009   Thomas Aaberg, MD
2008   Harvey Lincoff, MD

Paul Kayser/RRF Global Award – Pan American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO)

2023   Rajeev Muni, MD, MSc
2019   Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD
2017   Jennifer Kang-Mieler, PhD
2015   William Harbour, MD
2013   Eduardo Buchele Rodrigues, MD

RRF Cox Macula Society Project – The Macula Society

2025    Giovanni Staurenghi, MD
2024    Leo Kim, MD, PhD
2023    Francesco Bandello, MD
2022    Ajay Kuriyan, MD
2021    Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS
2020    Kathryn L. Pepple, MD, PhD
2019    Steven Yeh, MD
2018    Cagri Besirli, MD, PhD
2017    Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD
2016    Christine A. Curcio, PhD
2015    Robyn Guymer, MD
2014    Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD
2013    Kang Zhang, MD, PhD
2012    Stephen Jae Kim, MD, and Stephen Tsang, MD, PhD
2011    J. William Harbour, MD
2010    Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD
2009    Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD
2008-1995

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The mission of the Retina Research Foundation is to reduce retinal blindness worldwide by funding programs in research and education. As a public charity, RRF raises funds from the private sector and the investment of its endowment funds.