BrightFocus Foundation

2024 Research Portfolios Now Available

BrightFocus proudly supports over 200 cutting-edge research grants, fueling the global fight against Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.

Press Release

Published on:

October 16, 2024

BrightFocus National Glaucoma Research grant recipient Jennifer Fan Gaskin, MBChB, MD, FRANZCO (far right) with her research team in the lab. Photo courtesy Jennifer Fan Gaskin.

BrightFocus Foundation’s 2024 research portfolios highlight the active biomedical research projects the Foundation is supporting across the globe to advance cures for Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.

These projects are rigorously selected by a committee of world-renowned scientists who serve on the Foundation’s Scientific Review Committees to reflect the most innovative and promising ideas that will advance our understanding of these diseases of mind and sight.

BrightFocus is deeply grateful to its donors, whose generosity empowers the next generation of researchers to pursue innovative, bold, and promising science, bringing us closer to novel treatments, prevention strategies, and cures for Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.

Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Alzheimer’s Disease Research is supporting 112 grants examining the disease’s onset, progression, and treatments.

View the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Portfolio in  magazine format  or view a  printable format (PDF). 

Macular Degeneration Research

Macular Degeneration Research is supporting 49 grants exploring the root causes and potential prevention, treatment, and cure of macular degeneration.

View the Macular Degeneration Research Portfolio in magazine format or view a printable format (PDF).

National Glaucoma Research

National Glaucoma Research is supporting 38 grants exploring the root causes and prevention strategies and treatments to end glaucoma.

View the National Glaucoma Research Portfolio in  magazine format or view a  printable format (PDF).

About BrightFocus Foundation      

BrightFocus Foundation is a premier global nonprofit funder of research to defeat Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration, and glaucoma. Through its flagship research programs — Alzheimer’s Disease Research, National Glaucoma Research, and Macular Degeneration Research — the Foundation has awarded nearly $300 million in groundbreaking research funding over the past 51 years and shares the latest research findings, expert information, and resources to empower the millions impacted by these devastating diseases. Learn more at  brightfocus.org.

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