Research to Prevent Blindness’ mission and leadership makes the eyecare of today—and tomorrow—possible.
For decades, RPB grants have provided funding to create new discoveries in vision science. Learn about our current grants, as well as our exceptional grantees.
What do we know about common eye diseases? Find out here, in RPB’s new Learning Center for patients and families.
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Dry eye is a chronic medical condition that develops when the eye's tear film does not lubricate and protect the eye's outer surface.
At Research to Prevent Blindness, we enable the creation of treatments, preventives and cures for all eye diseases that threaten vision.
Throughout its history, RPB funding has been tied to nearly every major vision research breakthrough.
Keeping your eyes healthy is an important part of healthy aging. Learn about existing and emerging treatments for a variety of eye conditions from renowned vision experts with RPB webinars.
Our grants program is the foundation of our work. We support the brightest researchers, in highly effective labs, asking the most important questions about vision and the eye.
RPB provides grants that support individual researchers and outstanding departments of ophthalmology, from learning about the most minute structures of the eye to developing treatments.
At any given moment, hundreds of RPB grantees around the country are working on finding future treatments for all diseases that impact vision.
The eye provides us with what our founder Dr. Jules Stein called “the magnificent gift of sight,” but sight can also be lost due to disease processes. This is why it’s so important to invest in research that helps us understand and treat this incredible organ.
The eye is amazing, but also amazingly complex. Here’s where we break down the part of the eye for you.
A variety of eye diseases can lead to vision loss. It’s important to understand details about your (or your loved one’s) eye disease.
The new way to measure ocular aging opens treatment avenues for numerous eye diseases.
Thanks to supporters like you, since it was founded in 1960, RPB funding has been identified with nearly every major breakthrough in vision research.