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🔹 Tell your Senators and Congress reps to act now:
✔️ Oppose the cap & call for its immediate reversal.
✔️ Hold hearings to examine the policy’s impact on medical research.
✔️ Require NIH to engage with research institutions before changing funding structures.

If this cap is implemented, universities, medical centers, and research institutions could face devastating cuts—leading to fewer research projects, reduced innovation, and limited training for the next generation of vision scientists. We can’t afford to let this happen.

The indirect cost reimbursements are essential funds that keep labs running, support researchers, and sustain the infrastructure necessary for groundbreaking discoveries in blindness prevention and treatment of diseases like #Keratoconus, #Fuchsdystrophy, #Glaucoma, and #DiabeticRetinopathy.

With an aging population and rising prevalence of eye diseases, investing in vision research is not just important—it’s urgent.

We really hope that our Congress reps ensure that federal funding keeps pace with inflation so that researchers can continue their vital work preserving & restoring sight.

Why does this matter? Vision researchers are leading breakthroughs in gene therapies, AI, big data, regenerative medicine, and imaging technologies—advancements that could transform care for millions. Yet, with diminishing resources, the ability to fund and sustain these innovations is at risk.

Good to see you here, Dr. Carey! Get AAO and Ophthojournal to join Blue Sky soon as well!

Who is going to tell them?

I like the cruel joke behind naming a swim center after Holt. LOL.

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Derek Tran is the lymphocyte, who we need to infiltrate the Congress! :)

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