Giving to Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Fueling Better Vision

Your gift can help our doctors and scientists save sight. From childhood and diabetes-related eye diseases to glaucoma and macular degeneration, we are impacting common and rare eye diseases for our patients and people around the world.

Your gift will enable us to:

  • Accelerate research
  • Create new treatments
  • Increase access to eye care and decrease disparities
  • Innovate in training doctors and scientists

The W.K. Kellogg Eye Center is one of the top eye centers in the country and No. 1 in our state — a critical resource for everyone who needs us. Our goal is to improve lives through curing, preventing, and treating eye disease.

Giving Opportunities

W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Annual Fund

Your contribution to the Department of Ophthalmology Annual Fund is critical to the success of programs at the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center. With your help, vision scientists are advancing research for the benefit of patients and people around the world.
Give now to advance vision care

View additional giving opportunities

Support from our donors allows us to pursue new lines of investigation and to engage in cutting-edge research that might otherwise not be possible.

Edna H. Perkiss Research Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
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Together, we are transforming lives.

Learn more about how donor generosity supports research and innovation in eye care.

Philanthropy News

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Philanthropy News

Susan J. Lane: Gratitude and Giving

Susan Lane has made a transformational gift to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Michigan Medicine to support corneal research and patient education.
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Philanthropy News

March Hoops to BEAT Blindness Marks 20 Years of Community Support for Vision Research

Annual community fundraiser celebrates NCAA basketball excitement while supporting critical vision research at the University of Michigan Health W.K. Kellogg Eye Center.
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Philanthropy News

Gift from Bob and Patti Huiskamp Advances AMD Research

W.K. Kellogg Eye Center donors support transformational age-related macular degeneration research through generous gift.
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Philanthropy News

Transformative Gift Enhances and Expands SOURCE Repository

Donors make transformative gift to W.K. Kellogg Eye Center to the Sight Outcomes Research Collaborative which uses clinical data aggregation and analysis to improve eye care.
 Ophthalmologist Adam Jacobson, M.D., examines a young patient.
Philanthropy News

Gift Aims to Save Children’s Sight

Timothy and Laurie Wadhams’s gift to the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center establishing the Wadhams Family Center for Childrens Vision will advance congenital eye disease research.
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Medicine at Michigan

$11.5 million fuels innovation in sight-saving research

James Grosfeld has given $11.5 million to Michigan Medicine for research related to dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Partner With Us

We would be pleased to discuss your interests and goals — and the impact your gift can have. We can connect you with faculty and staff, identify where your help is most needed, and share how giving can provide personal satisfaction as well as financial and tax benefits.

Lindsay Baden

Lindsay Baden

Director of Development
 Amanda Barnett

Amanda Barnett

Assistant Director of Development