WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) and Susan M. Collins (R-ME) today announced that the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS), has awarded Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor a grant of $37,500 for vision research.
“This funding from the National Eye Institute will facilitate vital, ongoing vision research,” said Snowe and Collins in a joint statement. “We are pleased that Maine’s own Jackson Laboratory is once again at the forefront of our nation’s medical research efforts.”
The National Eye Institute (NEI) conducts and supports research that helps prevent and treat eye diseases and other disorders of vision. This research leads to sight-saving treatments, reduces visual impairment and blindness, and improves the quality of life for people of all ages. NEI-supported research has advanced our knowledge of how the visual system functions in health and disease. Vision research is supported by the NEI through approximately 1600 research grants and training awards made to scientists at more than 250 medical centers, hospitals, universities, and other institutions across the country and around the world.