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Brien Holden Vision Research Institute PhD students, Nicole Carnt and Maria Markoulli, have recently been awarded prestigious Ezell Fellowships by the American Optometric Foundation (AOF). Both researchers have their focus on contact lenses and trying to minimise the possibility of infection or inflammation that can occur with lens wear for the approximately 125 million wearers worldwide.

A visual summary of the Institute’s research, education and humanitarian activities was presented in a photo exhibition at the official launch of the Brien Holden Vision Institute. The photographs were taken by Brisbane-based photojournalist Dean Saffron.

Sydney, 25 March 2010: Scientists from the Vision Cooperative Research Centre (Vision CRC) in Australia today announced that a new technology promises to control the progression of myopia, or short-sightedness in children. Myopia affects over 1.6 billion people globally, with two thirds of those affected living in the Asia region. If unchecked, the number is expected to reach 2.5 billion by 2020.

New technology promises to control myopia in children

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 6 May 2010: Two visionary eye care leaders from Australia and South Africa, Professor Brien Holden and Professor Kovin Naidoo, have been jointly awarded the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Award for Africa 2010, at the regional World Economic Forum in Tanzania yesterday.

World-leading scientists, technologists and clinicians have met at the 7th Accommodation Club in Miami, Florida as part of the continuing search for a new vision correction technology that will give presbyopes near vision as good as when they were young.