NEI is offering $3,000 awards to as many as 20 contestants in the Challenge to Identify Audacious Goals in Vision Research and Blindness Rehabilitation. The deadline for submissions is November 12. Submissions must address why the audacious goal is important, how to achieve the goal and how realization of the goal will impact the NEI mission.
Winning contestants will be invited to present discuss, and refine their ideas at the NEI Audacious Goals Development Meeting in February 2013.
“The Audacious Goals Challenge is a new tool in NEI strategic planning that aims to gather ideas from across the scientific spectrum to forge new approaches to persistent challenges in vision research,” said NEI Director Paul A. Sieving, MD, PhD, in the release. “Whether basic, translational or clinical, a goal is audacious if it fundamentally changes research or vision care by closing critical knowledge gaps, opening developmental bottlenecks or providing key elements to translate scientific discoveries into clinical applications.”
The Challenge seeks ideas that support the NEI mission—to conduct and support research and other programs aimed at reducing the burden of vision disorders and disease worldwide. NEI encourages submissions from people in the private, government and nonprofit sectors, including scientists, engineers, healthcare providers, inventors and entrepreneurs, as well as the general public.
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