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Seedcorn grants up to £25,000 are available for projects with a maximum duration of one year, at a UK institution.

Each year five grants of up to £2,000 each are available to enable early career researchers working in the field of macular disease to attend the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting in the USA, where they are presenting work.

We will consider applications for clinical or laboratory-based research projects which can positively impact people with macular disease. This may include research into causes and prevention, early detection, treatments or improving quality of life.

The research grant terms and conditions are available for download below.

The role of the Research Committee is to: 

Patients have a very important part to play in research. The Macular Society is able to support researchers by finding suitable and willing patients who can offer researchers the benefit of their experience of living with macular disease.

Patients have a very important part to play in research. Over a million people take part in studies and trials in the UK each year. Without them, we would not have the treatments we have today, and new and improved treatments would not be possible.

The latest developments in the search for better treatments and a cure for macular disease.

The truth behind the headlines on sight loss, “cures” for blindness and research breakthroughs.

This is something we frequently get asked following reports that claim there is a link between taking aspirin and the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Often these claims come from research where patients are studied and followed up for many years. Researchers monitor patients’ lifestyle and whether these patients later develop AMD. From this, they try to make connections between lifestyle or medications and the risk of developing AMD.