Science Advisors

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World-class Scientific Review Committees

Our funding philosophy is to follow the most innovative and promising ideas that will lead to a cure for diseases of mind and sight. 

Each year, our Scientific Review Committees (SRC) comprised of renowned leaders in their fields, recommend new research opportunities for BrightFocus to advance our goal of defeating Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.    

BrightFocus currently funds more than $75 million across 287 research projects worldwide through its three programs, Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Macular Degeneration Research, and National Glaucoma Research.

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Alzheimer's Disease Research SRC
Macular Degeneration Research SRC
National Glaucoma Research SRC
 

The following experts have served on each committee within the preceding five years:

Alzheimer's Disease Research

Committee Members

  • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

  • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

  • The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

  • Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

  • Havard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • University of California, San Francisco, California

  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

  • Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

  • University of Kentucky

  • University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

  • University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

  • University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida

  • University College London, London, UK

  • Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington

  • Columbia University, New York, New York

  • Baylor College of Medicine, Houstion, Texas

  • University of Kentucky

  • University of California, San Francisco, California

  • University of California San Francisco, California

  • University of California San Diego
    La Jolla, CA

  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

  • Brigham Young University, Laie, Hawaii

  • Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

  • Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

  • Columbia University, New York, New York

  • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

  • University of California, Davis, California

  • University of Toronto, Canada

  • Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

  • Emory University

  • University of California, San Diego, California

  • Baylor College of Medicine

  • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Washington University
    St. Louis, MO

  • University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

  • Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

  • Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

  • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  • University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

  • Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

  • Stanford University

  • University of California, San Francisco, California

  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

  • Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

  • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

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Macular Degeneration Research

Committee Members

  • University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

  • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

  • University of Oklahoma Health Sciences, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

  • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)
    Nashville, TN

  • Hadassah Medical Center Jerusalem Israel

  • Retina Foundation of the Southwest, TX

  • University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas

  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

  • Research Foundation for SUNY/Buffalo State College

  • University Illinois at Chicago
    Chicago, IL

  • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

  • Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH

  • University of California, San Francisco
    San Francisco, CA

  • The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Gainesville, Florida

  • University of Oklahoma Health Sciences

  • Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
    Portland, OR

  • Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Institut de la Vision France

  • Boston Children's Hospital
    Boston, MA

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National Glaucoma Research

Committee Members

  • University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  • Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon

  • University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

  • Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

  • Devers Eye Institute, OR

  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  • Duke University, Durham, NC

  • University of North Texas

  • Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston Massachusetts

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

  • University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York

  • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

  • University of California, Davis, California

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

  • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

  • Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC

  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Mayo Clinic, Rochester

  • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

  • Oregon Health &Science University, Portland, Oregon

  • Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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*Updated July 2023.