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This year, the American Health Assistance Foundation has awarded $9.3 million in grants for its programs in Alzheimer's Disease Research (ADR), Macular Degeneration Research (MDR) and National Glaucoma Research (NGR).

We applaud President Obama for his announcement of the BRAIN Initiative, a landmark scientific project to examine the workings of the brain and comprehend its activity. Understanding the human brain may be the human brain’s greatest challenge.

The 2015 Academy Awards telecast shed a light on the diseases BrightFocus is battling—Alzheimer's disease and the vision diseases associated with aging that altogether affect tens of millions of Americans.

Maddy Dychtwald, a renowned expert on our nation's changing demographic trends and aging, has joined the BrightFocus Foundation’s Board of Directors.

In two studies receiving international attention, 2013-16 BrightFocus grantee Rik Ossenkoppele, PhD, of Vrije Universiteit (VU) Medical Center, Amsterdam, and colleagues in the Netherlands have lent confidence to our understanding of how Alzheimer’s develops. Their findings help confirm that amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide levels start to build up and aggregate long before Alzheimer’s symptoms develop, and are predictive of disease.

The BrightFocus Foundation today honored seven outstanding scientists in the fields of macular degeneration and glaucoma, awarding them research grants named in honor of leaders in vision research and advocacy.

Gordon Legge of the University of Minnesota and Robert Massof of the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute will today receive the prestigious 2015 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research. The award is jointly presented by the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education and BrightFocus Foundation.

The Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education and BrightFocus Foundation today announced that they will jointly present the prestigious Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.

BrightFocus Foundation today announced $11 million in new research grant awards, a record amount for the non-profit in its efforts to cure diseases of mind and sight.

Targeting the growing rates of glaucoma and macular degeneration, the BrightFocus Foundation today launched a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) campaign, “Make a Plan Today: Get Your Eyes Checked.”