Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research has entered into an agreement to acquire SightLife, according to a press release.
The combined organization, which will rebrand with a new name, will be headquartered in Tampa, Florida, with operations continuing at SightLife’s facilities in Seattle. The nonprofit will have nearly 300 employees and will be the largest eye bank, tissue recovery and ocular research center in the world, the release said.
The acquisition will allow Lions Eye to increase the number of vision-saving transplants it can support each year, strengthen connections to