NFER Travel Award Recipients – ICL 2025
We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 NFER Travel Awards, recognizing outstanding young investigators and early-career researchers contributing to the global advancement of lens and cataract science.
These awards support participation in the 10th International Conference on the Lens (ICL 2025), to be held in Kona, Hawai‘i this December.
2025 Travel Award Recipients:
- Christina Karakosta
- Yu Pu
- Promita Deb
- Judirae DeDrue
- Takashi Ono
- Shan Yuyan
- Lanping Jiang
- Yoichiro Masuda
- Takayoshi Sumioka
- Sarah Zelle
- Gavin Arno
- Haruka Matsumoto
- Constance Kraay
- Alberto Castro
- Edwardo M. Enriquez
- Anna Lubertozzi
- Qing Li
- Taishi Painter
- Preston Hazen
- Nikhil Nair
- Xuebin Hu
- Pooja Rathaur
- Dr. Salil Lachke – Fukui Award Honoree
Congratulations to all awardees!
We look forward to welcoming this talented group to Kona and celebrating their contributions to lens and cataract research at ICL 2025.
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.