We welcome two new members, being: Lions Clubs International Eye Bank Working Group, and Eversight, to GAEBA, under our Associations new membership system. GAEBA Chair, Dr Heather Machin says ‘this[…]

The Mary Jane O’Neill Fellowship in International Eye Banking was established in 2001 to provide medical or technical personnel from eye banks outside of the USA and Canada with the[…]

GAEBA started new Annual Award Program. Awardees will be announced at this years World Eye Bank Symposium. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the diversity, expertise and contributions of[…]

VIRTUAL WORLD EYE BANK SYMPOSIUM, 21-22 July 2022, hosted by EBAANZ More information on registration and abstract submission coming soon here.

Help tackle corneal donation and corneal blindness by becoming a GAEBA member today. There are 12.7 million people awaiting a corneal transplant, mostly located in low-middle income nations or without[…]

We are all in the fight for sight restoration together! Eye banks around the world work tirelessly to facilitate cornea donation for sight restoring transplants. Join the members of the Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations (GAEBA) for a free webinar to learn about the current status of eye banking and cornea transplantation around the world.

In late March, the Kentucky State Legislature passed, and the Governor subsequently signed, a new law prohibiting for-profit eye banking in their commonwealth State.The Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations[…]

pdf. version Coronavirus (COVID-2019) and Ocular Tissue Donation COVID-19 is an illness characterised by respiratory symptoms, including coughing, breathlessness, and fever, caused by the infection Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Individuals at greatest[…]

The organ, eye and tissue donation system in the United States depends on the cooperation and shared expertise of many participants; hospitals, eye banks, tissue banks and organ procurement organizations.[…]

The Barcelona Principles – An agreement on the use of human donated tissue for ocular transplantation, research and future technologies, are now available in Arabic, Chinese (simplified), French, Portuguese-Brazilian and[…]

MADRID, July 1, 2018 – The first new edition of the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, a seminal document that has helped to guide ethical practice[…]

14th June 2018 – Barcelona: We are proud to announce the launch of The Barcelona Principles – An agreement on the use of human donated tissue for ocular transplantation, research,[…]

We are accepting abstracts – from all over the world – for our World Eye Bank Symposium (June 15th 2018 – Barcelona). The abstract period has now closed. Registration and abstract[…]

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The Medical Advisory Board met by conference call in an urgent session on February 1, 2016 to discuss a potentially life threatening adverse event. A recipient of a keratolimbal allograft[…]

PERTH: Yesterday, Members of EBAANZ ratified Australia and New Zealand’s first regional Bioethics Framework concerning Human Tissue for Ocular Application, during their annual meeting held in conjunction with the Corneal[…]