Since its founding in February 1960, Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has been funding the best researchers, in the most effective labs, asking the most important questions. As the past 65 years have shown, investment in high-quality scientific research leads to life-changing discoveries.
Maria Bartolomeo Grant, MD has been selected as the 2025 RPB David F. Weeks Award for Outstanding Vision Research. Dr. Grant鈥檚 contributions have redefined our understanding of retinal diseases and opened new therapeutic pathways.
The National Eye Institute (NEI)鈥攚hich is the most important source of funding for all of vision research in the U.S.鈥攊s being threatened by a proposal from a committee in the House of Representatives to collapse the National Institutes of Health鈥檚 (NIH) 27 institutes into 15 institutes.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) today announced the 2024 recipients of the RPB / AAO Award for IRIS Registry Research.
Research to Prevent Blindness is pleased to announce that it has opened a new round of grant funding for high-impact vision research, including research related to glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, inherited retinal diseases, myopia, amblyopia, low vision and many more.
Leaders of organizations that fund vision research convene in Washington, D.C. to increase collaboration and maximize the impact of research funding for sight-threatening diseases.
The recipient of the Research to Prevent Blindness / David Epstein Career Advancement Award in Glaucoma Research sponsored by Alcon is Alex Huang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology and Research to Prevent Blindness announced the 2023 recipients of the RPB/AAO Award for IRIS Registry Research. The researchers will use the IRIS Registry鈥攖he nation鈥檚 largest comprehensive eye disease clinical registry鈥攖o conduct population-based studies in ophthalmology and blindness prevention.
Patricia Ann D鈥橝more, PhD, MBA, has been selected as the 2024 RPB David F. Weeks Award for Outstanding Vision Research (Weeks Award). Dr. D鈥橝more will receive her award and deliver a presentation during the AUPO 2024 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas in February.
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) announces two new grants to support high-impact vision research. The new grants are the: RPB / Tom Wertheimer Career Development Award in Data Science and RPB / Mary Tyler Moore Vision Initiative Physician-Scientist Award.
Today, Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) and more than 30 other organizations are convening in Washington DC for the Vision Research Funding Partnership event, which was organized around the theme of 鈥淭he Research Pipeline 鈥� From Premise to Patient.鈥�
Research to Prevent Blindness announces a new round of awardees who are generating critical knowledge around a host of sight-threatening conditions. With this latest round of funding, RPB has provided more than $400 million in research funding.
David J. Calkins, PhD, has been selected as the 2023 RPB David F. Weeks Award for Outstanding Vision Research.
Award recipients to use the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS庐 Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight) clinical database to improve care for all patients
Research to Prevent Blindness and Castle Biosciences today announced that they are partnering to increase opportunities for medical students to gain research experiences, specifically in the field of ocular cancer.
Research to Prevent Blindness and Aerie Pharmaceuticals are partnering to provide grant opportunities to support novel research in glaucoma.
Research to Prevent Blindness and the American Osteopathic Colleges of Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation announce a new multi-year partnership to provide opportunities for students of osteopathic medicine to gain research experiences in vision science.
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is pleased to open a new round of grant funding, up to $4.7 million, for high-impact vision research. With a focus on scientific excellence, RPB funds grants into research across all sight-threatening conditions.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology and Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) today announced the recipients of the Research to Prevent Blindness/American Academy of Ophthalmology Award for IRIS庐 Registry Research.
Donald Zack, MD, PhD, is recognized for ground-breaking contributions to the field of vision research, funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, an anonymous donor, and the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology.
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