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.
Help us save sight

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
David N. Zacks, M.D., Ph.D., seated in a laboratory.
Together, we are transforming lives.

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

Philanthropy News 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