News featuring AMDF Research

News/articles featuring AMDF-funded research and grants.

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  With Gifts From Donors, AMDF Invests In Breakthrough Macular Degeneration ResearchDecember 31, 2024
  As we get ready to turn another year over, we’d like to pause and share a few of the standout highlights and breakthroughs that donor support, your support, helped achieve. … Read more: With Gifts From Donors, AMDF Invests In Breakthrough Macular Degeneration Research
• Research Concludes Macular Degeneration is a Risk Factor for Severe Covid-19May 31, 2023
  Fairly early in the pandemic, we reported that AMD might be a risk factor for more severe COVID infections. Doctors had observed high rates of severe COVID-19 infections and death… Read more: Research Concludes Macular Degeneration is a Risk Factor for Severe Covid-19
• Study Indicates AMD Patients are at Higher Risk of COVID-19 ComplicationsFebruary 5, 2021
  A study conducted at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and published in Nature Medicine, indicates that patients with macular degeneration are at higher risk of complications due to… Read more: Study Indicates AMD Patients are at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Complications
• Cutting Edge Research Grants Announced by The American Macular Degeneration Foundation, Co-funded with Research to Prevent BlindnessJune 25, 2019
  The American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF), in partnership with Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), has announced the recipients of the RPB/AMDF Catalyst Awards for Innovative Research Approaches for Age-Related Macular… Read more: Cutting Edge Research Grants Announced by The American Macular Degeneration Foundation, Co-funded with Research to Prevent Blindness
• AMDF In the Trenches: Stimulating Research Through New Grants and PartnershipsJanuary 15, 2019
  Through a growing portfolio of research grants and creative partnerships with other eye research funders, the American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF) is finding ways to efficiently leverage its resources and… Read more: AMDF In the Trenches: Stimulating Research Through New Grants and Partnerships
• AMDF Supported Researcher Receives Award at ARVO 2017July 26, 2017
  Back in May, some members of our team attended the ARVO 2017 conference in Baltimore, MD. ARVO is The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and is the largest… Read more: AMDF Supported Researcher Receives Award at ARVO 2017
• AMDF Featured in The Harvard Medical School of OphthalmologyApril 24, 2014
  The Harvard Medical School of Opthalmology featured AMDF in their April 2014 EyeWitness newsletter
• AMDF Featured in The New York TimesFebruary 28, 2006
  Sane Steps May Save Your Precious Central Vision The AMDF has been featured in the New York Times.Below is a reprint of the article. By JANE E. BRODY Dr. Sidney… Read more: AMDF Featured in The New York Times