Early Career Cataract Research Award 2025
The National Foundation for Eye Research is pleased to present the 2025 Early Career Cataract Research Award to Dr. Eugene Serebryany (Stony Brook University).
This award is designed to support early-career researchers in the lens and cataract field, encouraging new talent and innovation in understanding lens biology and cataract genesis.
Dr. Serebryany’s early-career research centers on the biophysics of long-lived lens proteins, with key areas including γ-crystallin misfolding, disulfide-bond-mediated aggregation, and the mechanisms by which non-native protein conformations drive cataract development.
His work bridges protein engineering and aggregation science with human lens biology, offering promising directions toward therapeutic strategies for cataract prevention.
We congratulate Dr. Serebryany on his outstanding contributions to lens and cataract research and look forward to meeting him at the International Conference on the Lens (ICL 2025) in Kona, Hawai‘i.
Julie is a biomedical scientist, and her work focuses on understanding the development of age-related eye diseases with a particular focus on the lens and lens cataract. Projects involve investigating the interplay between reactive oxygen species and antioxidants to determine whether endogenous antioxidant defence systems in the lens can be harnessed to elevate antioxidant levels in the lens and delay cataract formation.