The Foundation Fighting Blindness was established in 1971 by a passionate group of individuals determined to help find treatments and cures for blinding diseases affecting themselves or loved ones. Today, the foundation aims to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments, and cures for blinding diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Usher syndrome, Stargardt disease, Leber congenital amaurosis, and more.
The foundation invites applications for its Career Development Program, which seeks to help advance junior clinical research scientists in their professional endeavors to cure retinal degenerative disease by: facilitating advances in laboratory and clinical research; elucidating the mechanism for the cause and pathogenesis of retinal degenerative diseases; and developing innovative strategies to prevent, treat, and cure these diseases.
This program supports up to five junior-level faculty for five years at $75,000 per year.
Eligible applicants include clinician-scientists possessing an MD, DO, OD, or recognized equivalent foreign degree and who are in their first, second, or third year of a junior faculty appointment.