Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia has been given US$5 million to establish a new vision research centre, named after philanthropists Vickie and Jack Farber, to support research including data mining and analytics, tele-ophthalmology, expanded community-based research, and the creation of a new clinical trials unit.
The new centre reflects the growing collaboration of Wills Eye and the Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University. The study of many eye diseases and the study of neurologic disease are closely related. The new research center at Wills Eye Hospital will work in conjunction with the neuroscience institute to better understand, and find cures for, these diseases.
“Wills Eye is a great institution with incredibly talented people who are motivated, forward thinking and committed to advancing scientific knowledge. If you put those energies together with financial support to accelerate the rate of progress, you truly make a difference in patients' lives,” said Jack Farber.
