International Symposium on
Fixational Eye Movements and Visual Stabilization

Sigvard and Marianne Bernadotte Research Foundation for Children´s Eyecare

The Sigvard and Marianne Bernadotte Research Foundation for Children’s Eye Care was founded in January 1990 by Princess Marianne Bernadotte and the late Prince Sigvard Bernadotte. The aim of the Foundation is to support all areas of pediatric ophthalmology research in Sweden, and to create a center for research and advance eye care for children at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The Foundation has been providing grants and scholarships to around seventy researchers of pediatric ophthalmology in Sweden. The research areas have included the eye disorders of prematurely born children, visual brain injuries, genetic eye disease, development of vision and eye motility, childhood cataract, strabismus, retinal diseases in children, etc.

Researchers from all universities of Sweden have been supported. Laboratories of pediatric ophthalmology have been established at St. Eriks Eye Hospital in Stockholm and they have been received grants for research staff and equipment. Symposia and other meetings in pediatric ophthalmology have been funded. A named Honorary Lecture for Prince Sigvard has been presented at each Nordic Pediatric Ophthalmology Congress since 1994 by a distinguished researcher of pediatric ophthalmology. A Prize is awarded in the name of Princess Marianne each second year since 1995 to a prominent researcher in clinical pediatric ophthalmology.

At its 10th anniversary the Foundation published a resumé of the research it had supported, included in a short handbook of pediatric ophthalmology for laymen and parents. At its 20th anniversary in 2010 the Foundation will publish reports of some important advances in Swedish pediatric ophthalmology and of a jubilee symposium held at the Nobel Forum of Karolinska Institutet, also a part of the 200th anniversary of Karolinska Institutet.

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