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Announcing 2023/24’s Small Grants

For every 70 people needing a transplant, only 1 cornea is available. Researchers are exploring alternatives to hopefully reduce the need for human cornea donations.

Read Forward Vision, our 2024 Spring Newsletter.

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) holds an annual meeting in which vision scientists at all stages of their careers are invited to share their latest research. We have awarded a travel grant to five researchers in order to aid them in attending the event, which this year takes place in Seattle, Washington, and presenting their research.

Each year we award grants to support supervisors and their students, as they lead to a PhD qualification and ideally, an exciting career in vision research. This year we have awarded £412,900 to three supervisors at University of Manchester, St George’s, University of London and Northumbria University, to build capacity in vision research.

Each year the Zakarian Awards are announced, whereby Fight for Sight / Vision Foundation and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) award early-stage ophthalmologists the means to conduct research to further cures and treatments for sight loss. This year a total of £73,394 has been awarded to three individuals to gather pilot data, learn research skills and explore their potential as vision researchers. Below we explore who they are and what they’ll be working on.

Would you like to cheer for our runners at the London Marathon? We are very excited to get together at the marathon this year especially and will be supporting runners across Fight for Sight and Vision Foundation.