About RPB
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) provides major eye research funding to 37 leading scientific institutions in the U.S. and supports the work of hundreds of talented vision scientists engaged in a diverse range of disease-oriented research.
RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS AND LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION TO CONTINUE LOW VISION RESEARCH AWARD PARTNERSHIP
Award has served as catalyst for new areas of vision research since 2016.
EMERGING VISION SCIENTISTS EDUCATE, THANK CONGRESS FOR RESEARCH APPROPRIATIONS
(NAEVR) held its Fourth Annual Emerging Vision Scientists (EVS) Day on Capitol Hill and twenty early-stage investigators participated.
RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS AND LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION TO CONTINUE LOW VISION RESEARCH AWARD PARTNERSHIP
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) and Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) announced today that they will continue their partnership in the RPB/LCIF Low Vision Research Award.
Four RPB-supported researchers and a Scientific Advisory Panel member have been honored with the prestigious 2018 António Champalimaud Vision Award for their groundbreaking research
Four RPB-supported researchers and a Scientific Advisory Panel member have been honored with the prestigious 2018 António Champalimaud Vision Award for their groundbreaking research
IN THE FUTURE, ALZHEIMER’S MAY BE PREDICTED DURING EYE EXAMS
RPB-funded researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL) have found a correlation in 30 older patients between retina thinning and elevated levels of tau and amyloid proteins that are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
Research to Prevent Blindness and Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology Announce 2018 Recipient of RPB David F. Weeks Award for Outstanding AMD Research
RPB and AUPO announce 2018 recipient of David F. Weeks Award for outstanding AMD research.
Groundbreaking Gene Therapy for Retinal Disease
The first patient receives an FDA-approved gene therapy for inherited retinal disease at Mass. Eye and Ear.
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