Sayer Vision Research Lecture and Award

In 2006, Dr. Jane Sayer, an NIH research scientist in 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 will provide 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.

Krzysztof Palczewski, Ph.D., John H. Hord Professor and Chair of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, will give the second annual Sayer Vision Research Lecture, Friday, October 5, 2007, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Lipsett Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10. Dr. Palczewski's research interests include phototransduction enzymes, retinoids in vision, and structural studies of G protein-coupled receptors. His topic will be "G protein-coupled receptor signaling in phototransduction." Download the lecture poster (PDF*)

Past Lectures

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