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Learn about an exciting citizen science project receiving support from the BrightFocus Alzheimer’s Disease Research program; the first crowd-sourced effort to gather data to help end Alzheimer’s disease.

Francis Hanes, PhD, is using his knowledge of biophysics to advance Alzheimer’s imaging and achieve earlier diagnosis. Read about his BrightFocus-funded research.

Top U.S. scientists are concerned that eye and vision health are relatively absent from national health priority lists. AMD, in particular, is rising..

Currently there is no treatment available for advanced dry AMD that can cause vision loss, also known as geographic atrophy. However, BrightFocus-funded researchers are working on the early stages of a possible solution.

BrightFocus-sponsored research at the University of Luxembourg has identified a gene that may provide a new starting point for developing treatments for Alzheimer's disease.

BrightFocus is funding a clinical trial to try to fight glaucoma with a new drug implanted in the eye that may protect the optic nerve.

Jeffrey Goldberg, MD, PhD, a BrightFocus grantee answers questions about an exciting new clinical trial for glaucoma.

The discoveries of Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi are helping us fight Alzheimer’s, AMD, and glaucoma. Their impact is explained by a BrightFocus grantee.