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.
FOUR RPB-SUPPORTED RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL MEMBER RECEIVE 2018 CHAMPALIMAUD VISION AWARD
Prestigious award is for the scientists’ work, which led to the first gene therapy for an inherited disease.
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.
RPB and AAO Award Grants for Big Data Research to Advance Patient Care
Award recipients to use IRIS Registry database to conduct population-based studies.
Research to Prevent Blindness Expands Grants Program
Many of the organization’s individual grants will now be open to researchers at any U.S. academic medical center.
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