Foundation Fighting Blindness Career Development Program (CDA)

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Carole King at carole.king@med.usc.edu.

• Application Deadline: January 29, 2026
• Funding Amount: $75,000 per year for five (5) years ($375,000 total) (no indirect costs)
• Early Career

The Foundation Fighting Blindness CDA program goal is to help advance junior clinical research scientists in their professional endeavors to cure retinal degenerative disease by:

(1) facilitating advances in laboratory and clinical research.

(2) elucidating the mechanism for the cause and pathogenesis of retinal degenerative diseases.

(3) developing innovative strategies to prevent, treat and cure these diseases.

Clinician-scientists must hold an M.D., D.O., O.D., or recognized equivalent foreign degree and who are in their first, second, or third year of a junior faculty appointment, and are committed to solving the mysteries of inherited retinal diseases are encouraged to apply.