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Alzheimer’s Disease Research (ADR), a BrightFocus Foundation program, is once again proud to participate in employer-sponsored workplace giving campaigns, including the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), which begins on October 2.
A promising new strategy to protect the optic nerve in glaucoma, helpful information on clinical trials and why they are so important, and a study exploring the genes involved in closed-angle glaucoma, are among the articles available in the fall edition of the National Glaucoma Research Report.
Macular Degeneration Research grantees are looking at new ways to stop age-related macular degeneration. Two, in particular, are hoping that vitamins and diet will provide solutions.
The following statement was issued by Stacy Pagos Haller, BrightFocus Foundation President and CEO.
BrightFocus Foundation, a Maryland-based nonprofit funding research worldwide on diseases of mind and sight, today announced that wealth management expert Patricia (Trisha) McGlothlin Stewart, CFP® has joined the organization’s Board of Directors.
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.
The summer edition of National Glaucoma Research Report outlines new research into the causes of glaucoma, drug screenings, and therapeutic strategies by generating retinal ganglion cells in a dish; a Q/A with Jeffrey Goldberg, MD, PhD on the frontlines of discovery; a spotlight on Meredith Gregory-Ksander, PhD, and her research that may stop glaucoma development and vision loss; and much more.
Noted vision researcher of the Netherlands receives the prestigious 2017 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.