Last week, the BrightFocus Foundation held its inaugural awards dinner in Washington, D.C. to celebrate some of the world's most promising science to end age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease.
Awardees included Dr. Dean Bok, professor of ophthalmology and distinguished professor of neurobiology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, who was given the 2016 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.
And prior to the awards ceremony, BrightFocus-funded investigators shared some of the current research during a science demonstration, including new combination therapies for AMD and how drugs are tested and translated into treatments for glaucoma.
Photo: Glen Campbell family at BrightFocus Foundation event honoring outstanding scientists and advocates for Alzheimer's and vision disease (PRNewsFoto/BrightFocus Foundation)
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Source: BrightFocus Foundation