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Shaffer Grants
Offered by Glaucoma Research Foundation
Key Details
Deadline Invalid Date
Award Amount $40 000
Host Country United States
Years Since PhD To be eligible, applicants must possess at least a graduate degree. Interdisciplinary teams and collaborations that may lead to new glaucoma treatments are encouraged to apply.
Additional Information
Comments Founded in 1978, the San Francisco-based Glaucoma Research Foundation was created to encourage innovative research aimed at finding better ways to care for people with glaucoma — the leading cause of preventable blindness. Through its Shaffer Grants program, the foundation will award one-year grants of $40,000 in support of innovative clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory research projects. Grants will not support equipment costs exceeding $12,000, salaries for principal investigators and co-investigators, projects with overt commercial applications, lab supplies, or indirect costs.
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Last Verified 19 February 2026 by asntech
Last Updated December 2018
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