Call for nominations for 2026 Roger H. Johnson Award

Deadline for Nominations: November 30, 2025

Nominations are now being accepted for the Roger H Johnson Macular Degeneration Award. The late Dr. Johnson endowed this award, which is given every other year through the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington. The intent of the award is to stimulate clinical and basic science research related to the pathogenesis or treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Nominations for the award are open to all clinicians and scientists throughout the world. The successful candidate will be the nominee who is deemed by the selection committee to have made the most significant contribution to our understanding of the pathogenesis or treatment of AMD. The recipient will deliver a lecture on their research on June 13, 2026, in Seattle.

Nominations should include one nomination letter, two supporting letters, and curriculum vitae of the nominee. Please send materials electronically to the Roger H Johnson Award Selection Committee, care of Emily Heindsmann at elynn23@uw.edu with “Roger H Johnson Nomination” in the subject line. The deadline for receipt of nominations is November 30, 2025.

About Roger H. Johnson

Roger Johnson graduated from the University of Wisconsin and trained at the Mayo Clinic. He set up his practice in downtown Seattle in 1945 and came to serve as a clinical professor on the University of Washington faculty; he was also a mentor and an eye researcher. Johnson established the eye clinic at Seattle Children’s and volunteered his time to serve as chief of service for more than 40 years.

Roger and his wife Angie were always interested in improving the health of eye patients. Nearly 40 years ago, they endowed the Roger Johnson Lectureship at Seattle Children’s, which brings top pediatric ophthalmologists to Seattle and has become one of the most prestigious visiting lectureships in the specialty. Later, in 2001, they endowed the Roger H. Johnson Award for Macular Degeneration. This prize is given to the scientist who has made the most significant contribution to the understanding or treatment of age-related macular degeneration. A remarkably generous gift from Angie Karalis Johnson led to the creation of the Roger and Angie Karalis Johnson Retina Center at UW Medicine South Lake Union in 2019.

Learn more about the Roger Johnson Award