Individual Investigator Research Award
Funds investigators advancing research on inherited retinal degeneration and dry AMD.
The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) Individual Investigator Research Award (IIRA) is a three-year investigator-initiated grant for researchers pursuing treatments and cures for inherited retinal degenerative diseases (IRD) and dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD). The Foundation, a US 501(c)(3) headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, has invested nearly $996 million in retinal disease rese…
Investigator-initiated research on inherited retinal degenerative diseases and dry age-related macular degeneration with the greatest potential to advance toward treatments and cures.
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