Florida Consortium to Save Sight

The Florida Consortium to Save Sight (FCSS) is a research “center without walls” focused on solving the tough problems of eye disease with the goal of developing and implementing innovative treatments and diagnostics.  The consortium assembles scientists, biomedical engineers, clinicians, and technology resources across Florida. 

Launched at a retreat held in Miami in January 2006, the FCCS now includes more than 100 faculty members and other key professionals. The consortium recently received its first center grant from the Florida-based foundation Hope for Vision.

The FCSS serves as the “umbrella” over a vertically integrated environment for research. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute — with its unusually comprehensive ophthalmic clinical expertise and clinical resources — is the “nidus”. Through this large scale team approach that crosses academic walls, it is hoped that the consortium can transcend the usual impediments to translational of research findings into practical application to clinical practice.

Location
The FCCS offices are located within the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Vision Research Center building on the medical campus, adjacent to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital.

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