About Us
Mission and Values
Our Mission Statement & Vision
Our Vision
Serving as a world-class research and educational organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of vision. “We give people back the use of their eyes.”
Our Mission
We achieve our Vision through four pillars of our mission that can best be expressed with the acronym, RISE:
R - Research; at least 12 studies per year.
I - Innovation; new procedures, treatments and discoveries.
S - Service to Humanity; dispersal of our research findings through our website, publications in peer-reviewed clinical research journals, and presentations at national ophthalmology conferences.
E - Education; providing medical education to doctors and bi-annual Awareness Seminars for patients.
The Cornea Research Foundation of America is a globally focused not for profit clinical research and educational organization located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was founded by an internationally recognized ophthalmologist, Dr. Francis W. Price, Jr., in 1988 with the primary purpose of tracking corneal transplant results. Today the Foundation houses the largest data base of its kind in the Western Hemisphere with over 5,000 transplants documented and it has participated in over 80 clinical and investigational studies and published over 100 papers and manuscripts. It oversees approximately a dozen eye-related studies annually.
The Foundation is designated a 501-C3, a nonprofit organization, by the Internal Revenue Service. The Federal identification number is: 31-1243592. The Foundation is registered with the Indiana Department of Revenue and is exempt from Indiana state sales tax.
