Contact the Lions Save-Sight Foundation

on 9381 0767 when the office is in attendance

Wednesday 8.30-5pm or Thursday 8.30am –12.30pm

Write or email

Lions Save-Sight Foundation (WA) Inc

2 Verdun Street Nedlands Western Australia 6009

Fax: (61 8) 9382 1171

E-mail: lss@eye.uwa.edu.au

The Lions Save-Sight Foundation is committed to supporting the Lions Eye Institute by awarding Scholarships to enable world class medical scientists and researchers to work at the Institute.

Dr Matthew Wikstrom
Appointee to the Brian King Post Doctoral Fellowship.

In May 2011, the prestigious Brian King Post-Doctoral Fellowship was awarded to Dr Matthew Wikstrom for research into the study of immune responses in the eye to gain an understanding of how the immune system monitors the eye and protects it from infection.  He was chosen by an independent panel from a widely qualified field of international candidates. The three year Fellowship is jointly funded by the Lions Eye Institute and the Lions Save-Sight Foundation. The LEI, who is affiliated with the University of Western Australia, is one of the largest multi-disciplinary eye research institutes in the world, with competitive funding from national and international funding bodies and a proven track record in the commercialisation of in-house intellectual property.

Jack Hoffman Scholarship

Dr Iona Schuster was granted a partial Jack Hoffman Scholarship to enable her to complete her thesis “Mechanisms that define effective long term antiviral immunity”. Her work to be completed in 2011, is under the supervision of Professor Degli-Esposti, Director of Research at the Lions Eye Institute.