National Institutes of Health
National Eye Institute
Minutes of the National Advisory Eye Council
April 21, 2025
The National Advisory Eye Council (NAEC) convened at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, April 21, 2025. All participants attended virtually. Michael F. Chiang, MD, Director of the National Eye Institute (NEI), presided as Council Chair, and Kathleen C. Anderson, PhD, served as the Executive Secretary. The meeting was closed to the public for the review of grant and cooperative agreement applications.
Closed Session
The meeting was closed to the public in accordance with the determination that this session concerned matters exempt from mandatory disclosure under Sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S. Code, and Section 1009(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1014). Members absented themselves from the meeting during discussion of and voting on applications from their own institutions or other applications in which there was a potential conflict of interest, real or apparent. Members were asked to sign a statement to this effect.
Review of Applications
NAEC members considered 610 grant and cooperative agreement applications on which NEI was the primary Institute; these applications requested a total of $223,774,797 (direct costs year 01). The Council also considered 371 applications on which another Institute/Center was primary and NEI was secondary. These applications requested a total of $172,771,568 (direct costs year 01). The Council concurred with the Institutional Review Group recommendations on these 981 applications.
Adjournment
The meeting of the National Advisory Eye Council was adjourned at 11:49 a.m. on April 21, 2025.
Closed Session Attendees
Council Members Present:
Dr. Michael F. Chiang, Chair
Dr. Kathleen Anderson, Executive Secretary
Dr. Maria B. Grant
Janice Lehrer-Stein
Dr. Maureen Maguire
Dr. Tirin Moore
Dr. Donald Mutti
Dr. Victor Perez Quinones
Dr. Pradeep Ramulu
NIH Staff Members Present:
Dr. Neeraj Agarwal
Dr. Houmam Araj
Dr. Negin Atri
Dr. Sangeeta Bhargava
Rylee Brauer
Nathan Brown
Dr. Ed Clayton
Jay Colbert
Dr. Tiffany Cook
Don Everett
Dr. Martha Flanders
Dr. Ashley Fortress
Dr. Shaojian Gao
Dr. Nataliya Gordiyenko
Dr. Tony Gover
Dr. Maria Grant
Dr. Hyo-Jung Han
Dr. Steven Henle
Lateefah Hill
Dr. Hongman Song
Dr. Brian Hoshaw
Dr. Jeanette Hosseini
Dr. Jimmy Le
Dr. Paek Lee
Renee Livshin
Dr. Barbara Mallon
Dr. George McKie
Dr. Lisa Neuhold
Dr. Robert O’Hagan
Melanie Reagan
Dr. Maryann Redford
Carissa Reilly-Weedon
Dr. Jennifer Schiltz
Dr. Merideth Shifflett
Dr. Azadeh Shoaibi
Dr. Afia Sultana
Dr. Joanna Szczepanik
Dr. Kirk Thompson
Dr. Santa Tumminia
Leslie West-Bushby
Dr. Cheryl Wiggs
Bronte Williams-Washington
Keturah Williams
Dr. Charles Wright
CERTIFICATION
We hereby certify that, to the best of our knowledge, the foregoing minutes and attachment(s) are accurate and complete.
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Michael F. Chiang, MD
Chair
National Advisory Eye Council
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Kathleen C. Anderson, PhD
Executive Secretary
National Advisory Eye Council