Science and Technology Awards
Science and Technology Awards support researchers worldwide with funding for early-stage myopia research that challenges current treatment approaches and advances prevention and control.
Funder: CooperVision
Due Dates: Rolling (year-round full proposals)
Funding Amounts: Seedling Award: up to $100,000 total cash funding over one year
Summary: Supports innovative, early-stage myopia research that could challenge current treatment approaches and advance prevention and control.
Key Information: Applicants need PI status or a documented PI waiver; animal-model studies are not accepted.
Description
CooperVision’s Science and Technology Awards support groundbreaking research in myopia control, inviting young and established researchers worldwide to explore technologies and approaches that could disrupt current treatment paradigms. The program aims to translate ambitious, forward-thinking ideas into practical vision-care solutions and foster ongoing scientific collaboration.
The current offering is the Seedling Award, designed to initiate a collaboration with CooperVision in a new research area over one year. Its focus includes new myopia prevention and control technologies, biomarkers of treatment response, mechanisms of myopia onset and progression, treatment-related changes in children younger than seven, and factors influencing initial therapy selection. The rolling submission model replaces previous annual calls and supports early-stage concepts in myopia-related science.
