We’ve talked about the research funding crisis before here on Webvision with linked editorials, and discussions of the 2015 funding environment. Increasingly, private foundations are becoming more critical to the survival of laboratories given the dramatic reduction in federal funding of research. Typically, these kinds of funding resources are not enough to completely run a lab, but they help smooth out the bumps, keeping scientists in the game.
We have compiled for you a list of non-federal vision research funding resources for you to explore. I wish my colleagues good luck and good science.
Non-Federal Research Funding Resources
Sponsor Website
| Alcon | http://www.alcon.com/en/docs/Alcon_Foundation_Guidelines.pdf |
| Allergan | allerganhorizongrants.com |
| Alliance for Vision Research | http://www.eyeresearch.org/ |
| American Federation for Medical Research | www.afmr.org |
| American Diabetes Association | www.diabetes.org |
| American Federation for Aging Research | www.afar.org/grants.html |
| American Health Assistance Foundation | www.ahaf.org |
| American Medical Assn. Fdn. | http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3119.html |
| American Physiological Society | www.the-aps.org |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | www.boehringer-ingelheim.com |
| Brookdale Foundation | www.brookdalefoundation.org |
| Dana Foundation | www.dana.org |
| Donald W. Reynolds Foundation | http://www.dwreynolds.org/ |
| Doris Duke Charitable Foundation | www.ddcf.aibs.org |
| Dreyfus Foundation | www.dreyfus.org |
| Ellison Foundation | www.ellisonfoundation.org |
| Eye Bank Association of America | www.restoresight.org |
| Fight for Sight | www.fightforsight.com |
| Foresight Ventures | http://www.ipo.com/venture/default.asp?p=IPO |
| Glaucoma Foundation | www.glaucoma-foundation.org |
| Glaucoma Research Foundation Shaffer Fund | http://www.glaucoma.org/research/grf_pilot_proje.html |
| Glaucoma Research Foundation | www.glaucoma.org |
| Heed Ophthalmic Foundation | www.heed.org |
| Helen Hay Whitney | www.hhwf.org |
| Hope for Vision | hopeforvision.org |
| Human Frontier Science Program | www.hfsp.org |
| International Retina Research Foundation (IRRF) | www.irrfonline.org |
| Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International | www.jdf.org |
| Knights Templar Eye Foundation | Knightstemplar.org/ktef |
| Life Sciences Research Foundation | www.lsrf.org |
| Lions Sight-first Diabetic Retinopathy Foundation | www.diabetes.org |
| MICHR | http://www.michr.umich.edu/ |
| Midwest Eye Bank | www.mebtc.org/ |
| MOD | www.modimes.org |
| Pew Scholars | http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_category.aspx?id=194 |
| Pfeiffer Research Grants | http://www.fdncenter.org/grantmaker/pfeiffer |
| Pharma. Res. and Manufacturers of Amer. Fdn. | www.phrmafoundation.org |
| Prevent Blindness America | www.preventblindness.org |
| Rackham Faculty Grants and Fellowships | http://www.rackham.umich.edu/funding/ |
| Research to Prevent Blindness | www.rpbusa.org |
| Retina International | www.retina-international.org |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund | www.rbf.org |
| Searle Scholars | http://www.searlescholars.net/ |
| Sloan Research Fellowships | www.sloan.org |
| Society for Biomolecular Society | http://www.sbsonline.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1 |
| Thome Memorial Foundation | http://www.hria.org/tmfservices/tmfgrants/thome.html |
| United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation | www.umdf.org |
| Whitaker Foundation (Bioengineering) | www.whitaker.org |
| Whitehall Foundation | www.whitehall.org/ |
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