For more than 70 years, Fight for Sight has been providing grants to support eye and vision researchers. While many organizations focus on funding research for specific diseases or conditions and select for experienced scientists in established research areas, Fight for Sight funds researchers who are just beginning their careers, as early as at the undergraduate level. We believe that innovation and growth must be fostered from developing careers, and that the largest benefit lies in supporting this exploration. Many of the prominent individuals in the field today began their research careers with a Fight for Sight grant.
Your contribution will allow us to give a first grant to a promising new eye researcher who doesn’t yet have other financial support. Support the future of eye research, with a donation today!
“The barriers have really come down in terms of what we can accomplish
in vision research. That to me is almost more exciting than what we
have accomplished: the optimism it’s given us that we can do so much
more.”
—Paul Sternberg, MD
Chair, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Chair, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vision problems, including blindness, are among the top 10 disabilities in adult Americans.
More than 21 million Americans report vision problems or eye conditions, with numbers expected to double over the next 30 years.
Fight for Sight has awarded more than $21 million in eye research grants to 135 institutions in 6 countries.