Investment in a Miracle
The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is Canada's leading private contributor of vision research, thanks to its generous donors and long-time annual fundraisers, Comic Vision, Cycle for Sight & Ride for Sight. Since its inception in 1974 the FFB has funded dozens of research discoveries to identify the causes of genetic forms of blindness at universities and hospitals across Canada. Today, these discoveries have helped bring scientists to this very exciting time in vision research, translating knowledge into treatments to restore the gift of sight. Below is a list of all past and current FFB funding.
Investment in a Miracle (updated as of August 20th, 2008)
| 1974-2008 | $16,498,724 |  Please click on the image above to open the 'About Us' brochure in PDF |
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| Case Western Reserve University |
$29,167
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| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Mere-Enfant |
$52,500
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| Columbia University |
$47,664
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| Cross Cancer Institute |
$110,500
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| Dalhousie University |
$177,094
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| Eye Institute of Canada |
$102,000
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| Harvard Medical School |
$105,000
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| Hopital Sainte-Justine |
$63,000
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| Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont |
$116,750
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| Massachusetts Eye & Ear |
$29,950
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| Memorial University |
$168,533
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| McGill University |
$1,003,049
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| McMaster University |
$339,021
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| Montreal Children's Hospital |
$202,184
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| Montreal General Hospital |
$283,516
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| Montreal Research Institute |
$245,000
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| Scientific Symposia |
$204,947
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| Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |
$117,451
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| Stem Cell Network |
$203,400
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| The Hospital for Sick Children |
$3,161,156
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| Université Laval |
$181,664
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| University of Alberta |
$418,203
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| University of British Columbia |
$1,478,008
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| University of Calgary |
$2,608,129
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| University of Iowa |
$28,650
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| University of Lethbridge |
$58,250
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| University of Manitoba |
$277,500
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| University of Miami |
$35,250
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| University of Michigan |
$102,083
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| University of Montréal |
$75,325
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| University of Ottawa |
$620,231
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| University of Toronto |
$3,606,228
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| University of Victoria |
$182,500
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| University of Western Ontario |
$64,820
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Cures are in Sight!
Retinal dystrophies affect more than six million North Americans. Macular degeneration, which leads to loss of central vision, is the leading cause of legal blindness in people over the age of 50. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) family of diseases is the leading cause of inherited blindness, and affects 1.5 million people worldwide.
The FFB is working to keep vision research a priority in Canada and to ensure the continued support of research directed to understanding the causes and development of treatments for retinal dystrophies.
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