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RPB awards $4.8 million in grants

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NEW YORK — Research to Prevent Blindness has awarded 44 grants totaling $4.8 million for investigations into the causes, treatment and prevention of all blinding diseases, according to a press release.

The latest awards were granted to departments of ophthalmology at 22 medical schools and 22 individual scientists. Trials to be funded with the latest awards include a cyclosporin treatment being tested for severe atopic keratoconjunctivitis; the study of possible relationships between optic nerve size, eyeball shape and focus error and the development of amblyopia; and an attempt to create three-dimensional imaging of retinal cells in the living eye, according to the release.

In the past 18 months, grants committed by RPB have totaled $12.9 million. Since its inception in 1960, RPB has channeled more than $220 million into eye research.