Funder: The Glaucoma Foundation
Due Dates: March 15, 2027 (Grant application)
Funding Amounts: Up to $75,000 for one year, with a one-year renewal of up to $75,000
Summary: Supports novel basic and clinical glaucoma research aimed at improving patients’ lives and advancing discoveries toward NIH-level funding.
Key Information: Applicants must hold a full-time faculty position or the equivalent.
Description
The Glaucoma Foundation’s Grant Research Program supports researchers pursuing novel innovations and scientific advances to improve the lives of people with glaucoma. Its current focus areas are exfoliation syndrome and exfoliation glaucoma, pressure independent mechanisms of glaucoma, neuroprotection, and the genetics of glaucomas affecting people under age 40.
The program considers work spanning basic science through clinical interventions, including genetics and genomic medicine, disease modeling, assessment of ocular perfusion, artificial intelligence, and clinical research. Priority goes to novel proposals with a viable study hypothesis that can produce impactful results fundable at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) level. The program reflects the Foundation’s goal of preserving and restoring vision through basic and applied glaucoma research.
