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BrightFocus Foundation hosted an awards dinner on June 8 in Washington, DC to celebrate some of the world’s most promising science and public advocacy to end Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.

Noted vision researcher Dr. Gerrit Melles, MD, PhD, of the Netherlands received the prestigious 2017 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research, presented by BrightFocus Foundation.

On March 15, BrightFocus staff attended a Washington, DC, screening of The Crowd & the Cloud.

BrightFocus Foundation today announced a record $13.3 million in new grants for promising science toward finding cures for Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.

BrightFocus grantee, Pietro Michelucci, PhD, shares the excitement surrounding the EyesOnALZ project and the Stall Catchers science game in this Q & A.