$10 million to Johns Hopkins to fight eye illness

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Baltimore Sun, December 31, 2007

The Johns Hopkins University has received $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead a landmark study on trachoma, a bacterial eye disease that afflicts 84 million people around the world every year and blinds about 4 million. The award is one of the largest ever to support trachoma research.

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