Once enrolled in the study you may be asked to try a new treatment, take extra time to have special photographs taken, or allow your vision to be tested on different instruments for comparison purposes. Donating your eyes to the eye bank upon your death. This allows us to take trabecular meshwork cells from the eyes of individuals with glaucoma to study in the tissue culture laboratory. We can also do such things as study microscopically the optic nerve changes that occur in glaucoma. Finally, research studies of all sorts require financial support.
Some support is obtained through government research grants.
This in not enough to do all the research we can do right now. By contributing in some way to our research efforts, you will be hastening the day when hopefully no one will go blind from glaucoma.