Glaucoma Fast Track 2025
Join us for Glaucoma Fast Track, October 8, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. Glaucoma Fast Track is the official pre-symposium workshop to the International Society for Eye Research (ISER)/BrightFocus Glaucoma Symposium: Concepts and Breakthroughs in Glaucoma.
About Glaucoma Fast Track
BrightFocus Foundation’s Glaucoma Fast Track workshop helps speed progress toward a cure for glaucoma by investing in promising young scientists in the field of vision research. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or other early-stage scientists focused on glaucoma research, or those who want to enter the field, took advantage of this unique opportunity to accelerate their path towards becoming an expert in this exciting field by:
- immersing themselves in the background knowledge and latest discoveries in glaucoma research,
- connecting with preeminent glaucoma experts and fellow early-stage researchers based in the U.S. and around the world, and
- engaging in scientific debates.
2025 Event Details
October 8, 2025
Atlanta, GA
Contact researchgrants@brightfocus.org with questions.
Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs
- Preeti Subramanian, PhD
- Abbot F. Clark, PhD
- Rebecca M. Sappington, PhD
- Colleen McDowell, PhD
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