INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY of Vision

AWARDS & KEYNOTES HISTORY

Adachi Award | Dodt Award | Marmor Award | Dawson Keynotes

Emiko Adachi’s Award (→guidelines)

This Award is provided through a generous endowment from Emiko Adachi upon her retirement as Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Chiba University, Japan. Hers was a long and glorious career with many honours, culminating in official recognition from the Japanese government. Despite all of this, she remained extraordinarily proud of her long membership of ISCEV, and of her outstanding record of service to this society. This Award is given to an ISCEV member who has, over a long period, given outstanding service to ISCEV and who has made significant contributions to clinical electrophysiology of vision.

#	Year	Awardee		Award lecture topic (1–3 years later)
18	2024	Dr Karen Holopigian	Clinical Sciences Associate Director, Translational Medicine, Novartis
17	2023	Prof Don Hood	Columbia University, USA	Lessons learned about happiness in love and work
16	2019	Prof Pierre Lachapelle	McGill University Health Centre, Canada	Is there a future for clinical electroretinography?
15	2019, 2022	Dr Mitchell Brigell	Aerpio Therapeutics. VP, Clinical Research – Ophthalmology	The importance of context: A memoir →Video
14	2018	Prof Daphne L McCulloch	Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Canada	What can my baby see? Clinical electrophysiology of infant vision
13	2017	Prof Erich E Sutter	Smith-Kettlewell Institute, Francisco, USA; President of Electro-Diagnostic Imaging, Inc.	My Adventures on the Way to Multifocal Electrophysiology
12	2016	Prof Laura Frishman	University of Houston, USA	Electrodiagnostic Testing in the Age of Imaging
11	2015	Prof Michael Bach	Freiburg University, Germany	Patterns
10	2014	Prof Richard Weleber	Oregon Health & Science University, USA	Metabolic Disease with Choroidal Atrophy: Gyrate atrophy and LCHADD
9	2013	Prof Mike Marmor	Stanford University, USA	High standards in retina and art
8	2012	Prof Yutaka Tazawa	Iwate Medical University, Japan	From memories of my research life in my young days
7	2011	Prof Paul Sieving	NEI, USA	Translational research with CNTF for retinal neurodegeneration
6	2010	Prof Geoffrey Arden	London, UK	The pathophysiology and treatment of diabetic retinopathy
5	2009	Prof Yozo Miyake	Nagoya University, Japan	New clinical entities of complete and incomplete CSNB, and occult macular dystrophy
4	2008	Prof Günter Niemeyer	Zürich University, Switzerland	A Vision of Electrophysiology
3	2007	Prof William Dawson	Miami, USA	Maculas, Monkeys, Metabolism, Aging and AMD
2	2006	Prof Eberhart Zrenner	Tübingen University, Germany	Restoring retinal function: new potentials
1	2005	Prof Colin Barber	Nottingham University, UK	The far side of the globe

William W Dawson Memorial Keynote Lecture

Judyth Dawson has generously donated the proceeds from the DTL trademark (Dawson,Trick, Litzkow electrode) to support an annual invited lecture at the ISCEV Annual Symposium.

#	Year	Speaker		Keynote topic
13	2024	Przemyslaw (Mike) Sapieha	Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal, Canada	Revascularizing the ischemic retina: from dish to clinic
12	2023	Dr. Masayo Takahashi	Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan	Retinal Cell Therapy – now and future
11	2022	Mr Arvind Chandna	Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, USA	Probing visual function in children using steady state sweep VEP →Video
10	2020	Prof Sylvain Chemtob	Department of Ophthalmology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte Justine Research Center, Montreal, Canada	Choroidopathy in Retinopathy of Prematurity: a concern for long-term outcome
9	2019	Prof Hyeong Gon Yu	Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea	Genetic screening and clinical characterization for inherited retinal disease
8	2018	Prof Isabelle Meunier	Centre national de référence Affections sensorielles génétiques, Montpellier, France	Is electrophysiology necessary for the diagnosis of inherited retinal dystrophies at the time of multimodal imaging?
7	2017	Prof Rong Wen	Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, USA	Hereditary Retinal Degenerations – What We Have Learned So Far
6	2016	Prof Wong Tien Yin	Singapore	The Brain as the Natural Extension of the Eye: Insights into Stroke and Dementia
5	2015	Prof Graham E. Holder	Moorfields, UK	The role of visual electrophysiology in neuro-ophthalmology
4	2014	Dr Artur Cideciyan	Scheie Eye Institute, Philadelphia, USA	Gene therapy consequences in patients with RPE65-LCA and in animal models
3	2013	Prof Xiong Li Yang	Fudan University, China	The modulatory role of melatonin on signal transmission in the retina
2	2012	Prof Carmen Ayuso	Madrid, Spain	Molecular genetics of retinal dystrophies
1	2011	Prof Jerry Fishman	Chicago, USA	Has electrophysiologic testing become obsolete?

Eberhard Dodt Memorial Award (→GUIDELINES)

An award, in the value of €3,000, commemorates the life and work of Eberhard Dodt, in particular his help and encouragement, over many years, of young scientists working in the field of clinical electrophysiology of vision. It is awarded to the young scientist who, in the opinion of the Adjudication Panel, makes the best presentation at the Annual Symposium of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV).
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Statements of all recipients after 25 years were collected by Richard Smith and presented as an illustrated book to Frau Dodt at the 2022 Liverpool Symposium. Here is a PDF of the book, without photos.

#	Year	Recipient		Topic
28	2024	Alexander Günter	Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Germany	Functional and morphological comparison of the Mongolian gerbil's visual streak with the human macula
27	2023	Lisa Tucker	Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK	Mesopic and Photopic PERGs
26	2022	Xiaofan Jiang	¹Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK; ²Depts of Ophthalmology and Dept of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, UK	Exploring longitudinal changes in flicker ERG peak times with age in an adult cohort
25	2020	Megan Margetts	¹Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK; ²Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK	Rod-driven electroretinogram responses in moderate Vitamin A deficiency are consistent with desensitisation due to an equivalent background
24	2019	Oliver R Marmoy	¹The Tony Kriss Visual Electrophysiology Unit, London; ²Manchester Academy for Healthcare Science Education; UK	Diagnosing hemianopic ﬁeld defects through the differing generators of the pattern onset and offset VEP
23	2018	Safal Khanal	New Zealand	Effect of atropine on human multifocal electroretinogram responses to defocus
22	2017	Lizhu Yang	Laboratory of Visual Physiology, Tokyo, Japan	Functional characteristics of East Asian patients with occult macular dystrophy (Miyake’s disease); EAOMD Report No. 2
21	2016	Jeremiah Kah Heng Lim	Australia	Functional and Structural Insights into Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in a Murine Model
20	2015	Ana Fakin	Slovenia and London	Retina-wide disease and foveal sparing in ABCA4-related retinopathy
19	2014	Mathieu Gauvin	Montréal, Canada	Weighing ON-OFF pathway contribution to the photopic ERG with the discrete wavelet transform
18	2013	Suna Jung	Montréal, Canada	Blindness following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia: retinal or cortical?
17	2012	Kauro Fujinami	London, UK and Tokyo, Japan	Genotype-phenotype correlations in Stargardt disease / ABCA4-related retinopathy
16	2011	Ajoy Vincent	Toronto, Canada	The characterization of specific retinal phenotype in C1QTNF5-related late onset retinal degeneration
15	2010	George Kong	Melbourne, Australia	Mitochondrial impairment increases neural vulnerability to stress
14	2009	Charlotte M Poloschek	Department of Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg, Germany	Give and take: the geneticist needs the electrophysiologist but we need the geneticist too
13	2008	Xunda Luo	University of Houston College of Optometry, USA	Retinal pathway origins of the pattern ERG (PERG)
12	2007	Maja Sustar	University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia	The photopic negative response of the flash ERG to broadband and monochromatic stimuli
11	2006	Daniel Barthelmes	University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland	Detecting visual field constriction in patients with retinitis pigmentosa using quantitative OCT analysis
10	2005	Ruth Hamilton	Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK	The ERG in preterm infants
9	2004	Chi D. Luu	Eye Research Institute, Singapore	Retinal function in myopic adults and children
8	2003	Julie Racine	Montréal, Canada	Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) resulting from lack of rods: The guinea pig model
7	2002	Sharon Elizabeth Morong	Toronto, Canada	Visual function in infants with infantile spasms before and during Vigabatrin treatment
6	2001	Alison M. Mackay	Glasgow, UK	A Laplacian electrode montage detects steady-state VEPs faster than a conventional montage (Oz-Fz) in children over three years old
5	2000	LS Mohan Ram	LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India	An indigenous inexpensive new electrode for recording the ERG
4	1999	Hartmut Schwahn	Tübingen, Germany	Effects of local anaesthetics on light evoked potentials of the in vitro retina
3	1998	Claudio Macaluso	Parma, Italy	Visual evoked potentials from paper? Pattern onset cortical responses to a stationary pattern
2	1997	Artur V. Cideciyan	Scheie Eye Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA	X-linked retinitis pigmentosa due to a putative null mutation in the RPGR gene: retinal function phenotype and histopathology
1	1996	Maria Kraemer	Göteborg, Sweden	The neonatal development of the light flash visual evoked response

Marmor Award (→GUIDELINES)

The Marmor Award for Clinical Innovation in Visual Electrophysiology is designed to serve ISCEV and the discipline of clinical electrophysiology by encouraging new work that will either 1) improve test practicality, e.g. speed, reliability, ease, cost or 2) widen their clinical applicability. The award is made to innovative projects rather than to individuals, and challenges recipients to continue the award-winning initial work to the next level of translation.

The Award is funded by an endowment from Michael Marmor, Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA.

An initial award of $500 is made to promising projects. A second award of $2500 is made two years later to the initial project that most successfully translated the preliminary work into clinical value.

Awards so far

Year	Winning project(s)	Winner of Follow-up Award (two years later)
2020	–	Portable device for VEP examination: continued development. M Kuba, J Kremláček, F Vít, Z Kubová, J Langrová, J Szanyi; Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
2019	Predictive value of the ﬂicker ERG in patients with diabetic retinopathy. Mitchell G. Brigell¹, Quentin Davis²; ¹Aerpio Pharmaceuticals, Cincinnati, OH, USA; ²LKC Technologies, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA	Development of a new commercial contact lens electrode. John R. Hetling¹², Shresta Patangay¹², Jason Park¹, J. Jason McAnany¹, Brett G. Jeffrey³; ¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; ²RetMap, Inc., USA; ³National Eye Institute/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
2018	Portable device for VEP monitoring. Kubová Z, Kuba M, Kremláček J, Vít F, Langrová J, Szanyi J; Hradec Králové, Czech Republic	–
2017	Evaluation of a soft, disposable ERG electrode prototype. JR Hetling, S Patangay, JC Park, S Rahmani, T Ban and JJ McAnany, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; RetMap Inc, Grayslake, USA; Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, USA	The SHERG (shorter ERGs) study: Design and rationale for an investigation of the effect of shorter dark-adaptation on ERGs in a large patient cohort. K Graham, R Hagan, S Walker, H Murray, L Steele and R Hamilton, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and University of Glasgow, UK and Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
2016	–	The iSIM project: Sensitivity of electrodiagnostic recordings to time domain filtering: a risk to standardised clinical reporting. AC Fisher, M Elt, R Teymouri, A Eleuteri, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
2015	Effect of shorter dark-adaptation on ISCEV standard ERGs and an exploration of the dark-adapted red flash ERG. R Hamilton and K Graham, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK	–
2014	1. Full field ERGs in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. PA Constable, SB Gaigg, DM Bowler and DA Thompson, City University and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK 2. A smart ERG signal generator for calibration of instruments and alignment of recording regimes across clinical laboratories. M Elm, AC Fisher, R Laflin, R Teymouri, A Eleuteri and RP Hagan, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK	–

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