Foundation Fighting Blindness supports ‘Eye-Bonds’ legislation

The Foundation Fighting Blindness is urging Congress to pass a bill that aims to speed up cures for blindness by allowing the creation of “Eye-Bonds,” according to a press release.
Introduced Wednesday in the House of Representatives by Republican Reps. Pete Sessions of Texas, Fred Upton of Michigan and Gus Bilirakis of Florida, as well as Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop of Georgia, H.R. 6421, the Faster Treatments and Cures for Eye Diseases Act, would allow for the creation of Eye-Bonds to fund translational research and advance treatments and cures for (Read more...)

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