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The Foundation Fighting Blindness Announces Two New Funding Opportunities

The Foundation Fighting Blindness has launched RFA’s for two awards: The Diana Davis Spencer Clinical Research Fellowship Award, and the Free Family AMD Research Award.

Find more information below.

 

 

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: FREE FAMILY AMD RESEARCH AWARD

The Free Family Foundation, in collaboration with the Foundation Fighting Blindness, has committed funding to advance potential treatments for dry age-related macular degeneration. The Foundation Fighting Blindness will make an award for a meritorious research proposal that proposes to understand pathophysiologic mechanisms that cause the transition from aging to early, dry AMD. If successful, the research will inform the design of targeted treatment for the greatest number of people afflicted with early AMD and prevent blindness from late AMD. Proposals must:

  • Focus on early, dry AMD
  • Determine the most relevant pathophysiologic pathways and their interactions with other pathways that cause early AMD lesions
  • Include two PIs with distinct areas of scientific expertise who will implement a multidisciplinary project with a team science approach on a topic that is not optimally served by a single laboratory
  • Use animal or cellular models that best address AMD pathobiology
  • Demonstrate that the outcome will have direct impact on AMD

Letter of Intent Deadline: October 25, 2021

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY

 

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: DIANA DAVIS SPENCER CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD

The Foundation Fighting Blindness annually makes available funds to support a clinician-scientist in their first- or second-year fellowship. The Diana Davis Spencer Clinical Research Fellowship Award provides one year of support for aspiring clinician-scientists interested in inherited retinal degenerations.

Eligibility

Clinicians who possess an M.D., D.O., or recognized equivalent foreign degree by the time the fellowship starts and will be eligible for subspecialty board certification at the completion of their training program are eligible to apply for a CRFA.

  • Ophthalmology residents or fellows with an interest in inherited orphan retinal degenerations could apply for both a fellowship position and a CRFA in the final year of their residency program.
  • Ophthalmology residents or fellows with an interest in inherited orphan retinal degenerations could apply for a CRFA the year before applying for the fellowship position itself, allowing the applicant and institution to know about funding prior to the fellowship application.

Applications may be submitted on behalf of candidates by domestic and foreign, public and private, academic institutions, as well as hospitals and laboratories affiliated with such institutions. The one-year award is $65,000.

Application Submission Deadline: October 21, 2021

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY
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