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António Champalimaud Vision Award
Jonga Trust is proud to be one of the nominees for the prestigious Champalimaud Vision Award!
The Champalimaud Foundation recognises outstanding contributions to research in vision and associated areas. The Vision Award has a strong bias towards work that has provided major breakthroughs in the understanding of vision or in the alleviation of visual impairment and blindness.
The António Champalimaud Vision Award has the support of Vision 2020 – The Right To Sight, a global initiative for the prevention of blindness launched in association with the World Health Organisation and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.The award is given alternately between contributions to overall vision research and contributions to the alleviation of visual problems, primarily in developing countries. The recipients of the award are productive research groups rather than single individuals. This may involve groups from more than one institution or discipline.
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