EVERSIGHT SERVICES
RESEARCH
RESEARCH PROGRAM
Eversight provides resources that help researchers advance cures and treatments
for eye diseases. Components of our program include:
TISSUE
Eversight provides more than 3,000 tissues for research
and education annually. We work to understand your
specific research objectives to ensure you receive
the tissue you need. Our dedicated research team
is trained to recover tissue under strict time and
environmental conditions to preserve the integrity of
precious biological specimens. In addition, Eversight
offers comprehensive donor medical, ocular and social
history information with serology results upon request.
Tissues available for research include:
❐ ❐ Whole eye
❐ ❐ Posterior pole
❐ ❐ Cornea
❐ ❐ Conjunctiva
❐ ❐ Lens
❐ ❐ Retina
❐ ❐ Limbal scleral
reminant
Additional tissue types and preservation
techniques available upon request.
FUNDING
Eversight provides seed grant funding to help develop
and conduct preliminary research projects. Several of
these grants have led to larger studies and significant
financial support from the National Institutes of Health.
Since 1980, we have awarded more than $3.5 million
to support research investigating critical diseases
like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and macular
degeneration, as well as furthering advances in
corneal surgery and eye banking practices.
PARTNERSHIPS
Eversight collaborates with researchers and surgeons
to improve eye banking practices. By sharing ideas,
we are able to identify key improvement opportunities
that benefit the greater donation, transplantation and
research communities. We share these best practices
through presentations at conferences, scientific journal
publications and educational forums.
Coming soon: 2017
The Eversight Vision
Research Registry &
Biorepository
Eversight is building an innovative
research program centered on a
diseased eye donor registry, data
repository and biorepository to provide
scientists with well-characterized,
human ocular tissue.
Tissue is recovered within six hours
post-mortem to ensure maximum
cellular integrity. It is then evaluated,
comprehensively imaged, phenotyped,
graded by disease state and precisely
prepared and preserved. Biospecimens
are accompaned by extensive medical
and social history information.
For questions regarding the donor
registry/biorepository or research
grant funding, please contact:
Gregory H. Grossman, Ph.D., CEBT
Director of Research Programs
(216) 706-4233
[email protected]
For ocular research tissue inquiries,
please contact:
Colleen Vrba, CEBT
Research Program Manager
(312) 469-5552
[email protected]
For more information about our program, grant application forms, and examples of
previously funded research projects, visit eversightvision.org/research.