THE PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF EPIRETINAL MEMBRANES The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study

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Funding Acknowledgements

Cohort recruitment was funded by VicHealth and The Cancer Council Victoria. Further Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study funding: the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Program Grant 209057, Capacity Building Grant 251533 and Enabling Grant 396414. The ophthalmic component was funded by the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia; American Health Assistance Foundation, Jack Brockhoff Foundation, John Reid Charitable Trust, Perpetual Trustees (Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Fund), and the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. People support was provided through the NHMRC Career Development and Practitioner Fellowships to R. H. Guymer. Wagstaff Fellowship and Macular Degeneration Foundation Blackmores Dr Paul Beaumont Research Fellowship to L. D. Robman. NHMRC PhD scholarship and Hugh Noel Puckle Scholarship to M. K. Adams, and NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship to P. N. Baird and J. Hopper. Centre for Eye Research Australia is a recipient of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence Grant 529923 and receives Operational Infrastructure Support from the Victorian Government. The funding organizations did not have any involvement in study design and data collection, analysis and interpretation. There have been no involvements that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or in the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated.