Eversight is a charitable, not-for‐profit organization whose mission is to preserve and restore of sight. This is accomplished in part via the recovery, evaluation and distribution of human eye tissue for transplantation, education and research. Eversight has established an Eye and Vision Research Grant Program to enhance its mission by providing support for promising projects concerned with vision research and eye banking practices.
Eversight is pleased to invite proposals from academic, clinical and health services investigators from partner institutions for funding promising research projects concerned with vision problems with special emphasis on projects utilizing human ocular tissue or research related to corneal surgery, corneal disease, and eye banking (including clinical and business practices). Projects relying solely on animal models will be considered only when their aims are directly related to investigating corneal diseases, surgery, or eye banking. Funding is provided as seed money to develop promising ideas for research, collect initial data, pilot projects and/or carry out preliminary laboratory work that could facilitate the submission of full-fledged applications for more extensive support from private or governmental agencies. The Eye and Vision Research grant is intended for faculty only.
For more information, please visit: http://eversightvision.org/research/submission-guidelines.htm