Eye & Vision Research Grants
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Eye & Vision Research Grants support young and established researchers with seed funding for vision research and eye banking innovation to advance knowledge of visual disorders and eye bank practices.
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Funder: Eversight
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $15,000 for one year; possible one-year no-cost extension
Summary: Seed funding for vision research, emphasizing human ocular tissue, corneal disease and surgery, and eye banking innovation.
Key Information: Applicants must be faculty at assistant professor level or above, employed by an eligible Eversight partner institution.
Description
Eversight’s Eye & Vision Research Grants provide seed support to develop promising ideas, collect initial data, conduct pilot projects, and undertake preliminary laboratory work that could lead to larger private or governmental grants. The program supports young investigators and established researchers pursuing new directions, rather than supplementing research already funded.
Research priorities include vision problems, particularly studies using human ocular tissue—cornea, other anterior segment structures, posterior segments, and optic nerve—and work concerning corneal surgery, corneal disease, or innovation in eye banking practices. Eversight prioritizes proposals with the greatest potential to advance scientific knowledge about the causes and treatments of visual disorders or eye bank practices. Its independent, volunteer Research Review Committee evaluates proposals, with final funding decisions made by Eversight’s Board of Directors.
