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May is Healthy Vision Month!

This year, NEI’s shining a light on vision loss and mental health — and sharing steps people with a visual impairment can take to thrive in their daily lives.

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Elements of successful NIH grant applications

Elements of successful NIH grant applications

Perspective article aims to help beginning scientists develop thoughtful, articulate, compelling, and competitive research proposals.
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Study explains why the brain can robustly recognize images, even without color

A new study from MIT offers a possible explanation for how the brain comes to be adept at identifying both color and color-degraded images, even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color.
Mouse retinal blood vessels

How neurons build a 3-D vascular structure to keep the retina healthy

Researchers at UC San Francisco have found a new type of neuron that guides the formation of a lattice of blood vessels nourishes cells in the retina.

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Funding for Vision Research

NEI funds more than 1,500 research and training grants to vision scientists across the country and around the world.

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NEI Research Initiatives

These NEI initiatives support challenging, high-impact vision research. Current priorities include:

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