Research projects and supervisions undertaken by Dr Joe Rainger (Research Fellow) in the Rainger Lab: Medical Research Foundation and Moorfields Eye Charity Child and Adolescent Eye Health Research Grant: Bridging the causal gap for families affected with severe birth eye defects. £299,882 (2025-2028)Fight for Sight PhD studentship: Just out of sight: determining gene regulatory loci to improve coloboma diagnoses. £133,923 (2025-2028)UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Novel approaches to define tissue fusion mechanisms in embryonic development. £1.82 M (2019-2026)Fight For Sight Early Career Fellowship: Elucidating the genetic and molecular causes of ocular coloboma. £199,998 (2015-2018)DDI Innovative Models For Medicine: ForSight: The generation of biomedically-relevant chicken models of human sight loss to prime for therapy and intervention £111,998 (2024-2025)BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme Grant: Named investigatorBBSRC Capital Equipment Bid: “Integrated Tissue Phenotyping Platform” £4.2 M (2020)Academic Lead: Roslin Early Career Researcher pump-prime grant scheme (2018-present; Funded >58 projects totalling >£200,00)Meeting organiser: BSDB Autumn short format meeting Septation and Tissue Fusion in Embryonic Development and Disease (King’s College London, 2024); College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Inaugural Post-doc symposium (Edinburgh, 2024); Avian research Symposium (Online, 2024); BSDB Autumn meeting (Karolinska, Sweden. 2017)Chair, CMVM College Research Staff Committee (representing Early Career Researchers across CVMV).Direct supervision of >20 staff or students since becoming independent.Creator: CMVM Early Career Researcher webpages. (2021-present)PhD Examinations: University of Edinburgh (2019, internal); University of Aberdeen Institute of Medical Sciences (2021, external), University College London (2022, external), University of East Anglia (2024, external), University of Edinburgh (2024, internal) This article was published on 2025-08-06
