The mission of the Cincinnati Eye Bank is to provide
donated human eye tissue for corneal transplant, medical
research and teaching.
When you enter a darkened place, your first impulse
is to turn on a light. For thousands of people with corneal
blindness, however, the darkness remains. The cornea, the
clear “window” at the front of the eye, can
become cloudy due to inherited disease, injury, infections,
and many other causes, leading to dramatically reduced
vision. However, modern surgical science has made it
possible to restore sight through a
corneal transplant, in which the cloudy
cornea is replaced with the clear cornea from someone
who donated their eyes after death. Please browse the
various sections of this site to learn more about the
Cincinnati Eye Bank and how you can help restore that
light through the miracle of eye donation and corneal
transplantation.
Hannah's story of being a
corneal transplant recipient
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Cincinnati Eye Bank //
4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 330 // Cincinnati, Ohio
45241
Phone: 513-861-3716 // Fax: 513-483-3984
