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Causes: Health, Organ & Tissue Banks
Mission: Recovery, processing and distribution of eye tissue for transplantation.
Programs: Medical services of eye banking (including the recovery, processing, analysis, testing and distribution of donated cadaveric tissues) for transplantation.
research - providing tissues for medical research. The eye bank donates eye tissue for transplants, research and teaching for which they incur processing costs. They sometimes receive minimal reimbursement for these services.
public health education - eye and tissue donor outreach and donor advocacy.