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Causes: Education, Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments, Graduate & Professional Schools, Health
Mission: To harvest cornea tissue donated; process, grade and transplant tissue in patients needing vision restoration; participate in eyebank network to provide tissue to patients in other areas of the country; provide tissue that is unusable for transplant as tissue for research into eye disease
Programs: Medical service provided to harvest cornea tissue: 116 tissues were recovered for research/training/teaching from 58 donors; 89 corneal transplants were performed locally;