Press Releases
BrightFocus Foundation joins the nation in mourning the death of Pat Summitt, the winningest college basketball coach of all time.
BrightFocus event recognizes top scientists and advocates in Alzheimer's and vision disease.
BrightFocus Foundation today honored five scientists in the fields of macular degeneration and glaucoma research, awarding them grants named in honor of leaders in vision research and advocacy.
Noted vision researcher Dr. Dean Bok of UCLA is the recipient of the prestigious 2016 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research. Dr. Bok is being honored for more than four decades of discoveries in the field of retinal cell biology.
BrightFocus Foundation today announced $11.7 million in promising new scientific research projects, its largest annual investment toward finding cures for Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
CentraSight® by VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., today announced a partnership with leading non-profit, BrightFocus Foundation to further patient research and education for advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) through a direct-to-patient outreach and survey program.
BrightFocus Foundation joins with Montgomery County, MD Executive Isiah Leggett to announce the County’s commitment to Dementia Friendly America, a rapidly growing, national initiative to create communities that better recognize and help those affected with dementia, their families and care partners.
Stacy Pagos Haller, BrightFocus Foundation's President and CEO, urges the Food and Drug Administration to strongly support expanded use of neurodiagnostic tools to assess cognitive function.
In a major scientific breakthrough, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s and related diseases may be able to delay or prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common form of blindness among older Americans.
World Alzheimer’s Day finds us at a crossroads. We are confronted by a mounting global health and economic crisis. But we are also seeing encouraging signs from our laboratories, local communities, and halls of government.