The effort — led by the primary award recipient, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus — is funded by up to $46 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts program. ARPA-H is a federal agency that advances biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity, according to a Dec. 18 Cedars-Sinai news release.
Here are the eight organizations collaborating on the project:
- Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles)
- Indiana University (Bloomington)
- Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (Aurora)
- University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
- University of Wisconsin (Madison)
- National Eye Institute (Bethesda, Md.)
- Foundation Fighting Blindness (Columbia, Md.)
