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CHICAGO—Prevent Blindness announced the call for applications for its 2017 Joanne Angle Investigator Award. The award is a grant provided annually to a public health research project that seeks to put an end to unnecessary vision loss.

“Providing much needed funds for sight-saving research has been part of our mission to prevent vision loss since our founding in 1908,” said Hugh R. Parry, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness. “Today, through the Joanne Angle Investigator Award, we continue to support individuals and institutions that are working toward that same goal.”

The Joanne Angle Investigator Award provides funding for research investigating public health related to eye health and safety. This year, preference will be given to public health research that relates to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and/or glaucoma. Basic laboratory science research will not be supported under this program.

Since the award’s inception in 2003, more than $1 million has been awarded to eye and vision research projects. The award was named for. Joanne Angle who served on the National Board of Directors of Prevent Blindness and both its Government Affairs and Audit committees, in addition to her work with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

Applications for the award are due March 6, 2017 at 12 p.m. (ET). Grants are for a one-year period, up to $25,000, reviewed by a panel of experts, and commence on July 1, 2017. For more information visit www.preventblindness.org/investigator-awards, or call Prevent Blindness at (800) 331-2020.