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News and updates

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. Has awarded four new research grants in 2015 for $960,000

January 1, 2016

The E.Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. is pleased to announce for 2015, four new research grants were awarded totaling $960,000 to Damon Clark, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular Development Biology, Yale University; Evan Feinberg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, UCSF; Yvonne Ou, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSF; and Glenn Yiu, MD, PhD, …

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The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded four new research grants in 2014 for $960,000

July 17, 2015

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded four new research grants totaling $960,000 to Yang Sun, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Indiana University; Derek S. Welsbie, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Medical School; Bart G. Borghuis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomical Sciences & …

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The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded three grants in 2013 for $720,000

June 30, 2013

The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has awarded three new grants totaling $720,000 to Jeremy N. Kay, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Opthalmology, Duke University Eye Center; Sujata Rao, PhD, Assistant Staff, Ophthalmic Research, Cleveland Clinic; and Wei Wei, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology at University of Chicago.

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