The Foundation Fighting Blindness has issued a request for applications for its Career Development Award program. The goal of this program is to help advance junior clinical research scientists in their professional endeavors to cure retinal degenerative disease by facilitating advances in laboratory and clinical research, elucidating the mechanism for the cause and pathogenesis of retinal degenerative diseases, and developing innovative strategies to prevent, treat and cure these diseases.
Research programs can be clinical or laboratory- based and must address one or more of the following designated FFB Priority Research Program Areas:
- Genetic Technologies
- Restorative Therapies
- Novel Medical Therapies
- Genetics
- Cell and Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
- Clinical Research on Structure and Function
$75,000 per year, direct costs only, will be awarded for 5 years.
Eligibility criteria include:
- Be a clinician-scientist possessing an MD, DO, OD, or equivalent degree.
- Be in the first, second, or third year of a junior faculty appointment.
Please see RFP for full criteria.
To Apply:
- This is an open RFP (UCSF may submit an unlimited number of applications).
- Follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. Please notify your Grants Officer as soon as possible of your intention to apply to ensure that they will have enough time to support your application.
- Application deadline is January 29, 2026.
For more information and to review complete application instructions and eligibility requirements, please visit https://www.fightingblindness.org/career-development-program-cda#overview-443.