Be a part of the vision.
Eye Research and Medical Education.
Advancement of eye care
Eye care, or ophthalmology, is a growing field in which physicians and researchers are actively discovering new approaches and techniques for treating and preventing eye diseases. Do you have a family member or friend with glaucoma, macular degeneration, or retinitis caused by diabetes? The treatment, care, and prevention of all of these depends on eye donors to advance knowledge of how the eye functions, and what causes impaired vision. In addition to corneas for transplantation, the mission of the Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank includes providing donor eyes for eye research and medical education. The Eye Bank has for decades provided donor eyes - and with them many opportunities for researchers and physicians in training - to The Ohio State University's ophthalmology department.
Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank to Participate in NIH Grant
The Eye
Bank was recently notified that we will be receiving $133,000 in grant money
during 2010-11, for participation in research, to be funded by the National
Institutes of Health. The research involves the development and use of
a new portable instrument to make it possible for eye banks to detect
previous refractive surgery in potential donors' eyes. The Eye Bank
will help design the instrument and then test its use, collecting data for
researchers at Vision Optimization.
Help us achieve our vision.
The Eye Bank relies on community support to help us fund our vision restoration initiatives. Click here to learn how you can help give the Gift of Sight today.
