Gillingham Fellowships
Funding Amount
$10,000 per fellowship
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Focus: Training for Latin American ophthalmologists in retinal subspecialties
Two six-month fellowships are awarded each year to Latin American ophthalmologists for training at leading institutions in the United States or Canada.
Award Details:
- Award Amount: $10,000 per fellowship
- Duration: Six-month fellowships
- Number of awards: Two fellowships per year
- Geographic scope: Latin America; training institutions in United States or Canada
Program Administration
This program is administered for RRF by the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO).
Program Background
Established through a gift from W. J. Gillingham.
Contact Information
Retina Research Foundation
- Address: 3555 Timmons Lane, Suite 810, Houston, Texas 77027
- Phone: 713-797-1925
- Website: retinaresearchfnd.org
What Retina Research Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 21
- Total given
- $1.93M
- Median grant
- $45K
- Range
- $25K–$700K
- By dollars: Wisconsin 36%, Texas 20%, Massachusetts 9%. Top recipient cities: Boston, MA; Madison, WI; Houston, TX.
- 14% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
University of Wisconsin - Madison · Madison, WI
$700K
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX
$220K
University of California - Irvine (UCI) · Irvine, CA
$95K
Meei Ocular Genomics Institute Harvard Medical School · Boston, MA
$90K
Univ of Michigan Ann Arbor MI · Ann Arbor, MI
$90K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Global health
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