8 organizations embark on major research project to cure blindness

Eight systems and organizations have partnered on research to cure total blindness through whole-eye transplantation.

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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.)

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