Press Releases
Jan M. Stouffer, PhD, a polymer physicist and manager with over 30 years of experience in research and development, has joined the BrightFocus Foundation’s Board of Directors. The Foundation, a Maryland-based nonprofit, works to end Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
BrightFocus Foundation hosted an awards dinner on June 8 in Washington, DC to celebrate some of the world’s most promising science and public advocacy to end Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
Noted vision researcher of the Netherlands receives the prestigious 2017 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.
From Stacy Pagos Haller, President and CEO
BrightFocus Foundation today announced a record $13.3 million in new grants for promising science toward finding cures for Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
An experimental drug, consisting of cells manufactured and implanted in the eye to stimulate optic nerve growth and activity, could be an entirely new way of fighting glaucoma.
BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit supporting research worldwide on diseases of mind and sight, has named Nancy Lynn as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships.
BrightFocus Foundation, a leading private funder of research on diseases of mind and sight, has named Diane Bovenkamp, PhD, as its new Vice President, Scientific Affairs.
BrightFocus Foundation today lauded a new, innovative citizen science project, EyesOnALZ, which recently launched an online game - Stall Catchers - to engage the public in helping researchers analyze Alzheimer’s data in the hopes of more quickly discovering ways to prevent and treat the disease.
BrightFocus Foundation, Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative, AnthroTronix, and Mindoula, have launched Phase II of the Health-eBrain Study, investigating the impact the Alzheimer’s caregiving experience has on brain and behavioral health.