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Saving Sight by the Numbers | The Impact of Eye Donation

As an eye bank, Saving Sight is an integral part in the journey of the cornea, recovering donor tissue to honor the gift of sight, processing and evaluating the tissue in our laboratory, and then distributing the tissue to corneal surgeons for transplant. During the...

Connect with Saving Sight at ESCRS 2018

Lets's connect at ESCRS 2018! Our Saving Sight team is excited to be back at the annual European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) Congress September 22-26, 2018. We'd love the opportunity to connect with ophthalmologists,...

Fight for Sight and Saving Sight Announce Grant Awardee

Kansas City, Mo. (July 5, 2018) – Nonprofit organizations Fight for Sight and Saving Sight have awarded a $2500 scholarship to Boston University School of Medicine student, Min Tae Kim, for his study of how type 2 diabetes effects corneal wound healing and repair. In...

Introducing the 2018-2019 Board of Directors

Saving Sight is pleased to welcome three new people to its Board of Directors for the 2018-2019 fiscal year (July 1 - June 30). Welcome VCC Pat Scott, IPCC Larry Boettcher, and PDG Roger Tiemann! Board members are key to the organization’s success. They actively...

Meet Us in St. Louis for a DMEK Wet Lab

Meet Us in St. Louis for a DMEK Wet Lab Join Saving Sight in St. Louis on June 2nd for a comprehensive DMEK wet lab with experienced surgeons. The day will include a full morning of didactics and videos followed by a live demonstration of the procedure and the wet...