Dear Research Advocate, “The cost is billions. The return is trillions, and it's priceless to patients and their families.” This characterization of the life-saving research NIH supports and conducts by Jed Manocherian, ACT for NIH Chairman and Founder, is emblematic of the affecting and thought-provoking discussions that took place throughout yesterday’s 2022 Advocacy Awards. (We were honored to recognize Jed with the Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award for his unparalleled NIH advocacy. If you couldn’t join us “live,” check out this high-level recap of the program and watch the full event . We’d like to again express our appreciation to the honorees themselves, to the award benefactors...

World Glaucoma Week is a global initiative being held March 6-12 , to raise awareness on glaucoma with events happening around the world. As one of those events, the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) is excited to present the Understanding Glaucoma Patients: Health Disparities and Unmet Need Virtual Congressional Briefing on Wednesday, March 8. AEVR worked with Research!America on the Vision and Blindness fact sheet in the past to provide useful information about eye disease and vision impairment, including the latest research into glaucoma. Americans fear vision loss more than most other medical conditions, as reported in a 2014 Research!America poll conducted for AEVR. 1 The...