The Associated Press
CLEVELAND - A research collection of about 500 frozen eyeballs has been transferred from Philadelphia to the Cleveland Clinic as part of the move of a national eye donor program.
The move will be completed next week with the arrival of about 500 more eyes and eye sections preserved in formaldehyde, said Joe Hollyfield, a clinic researcher who will oversee the collection.
The collection belongs to the Foundation Fighting Blindness, a nonprofit group based in Owings Mills, Md. The organization studies inherited diseases of the retina.
The foundation's chairman is Cleveland Cavaliers owner Gordon Gund, who went blind from a retinal disease in 1970.
Mr. Hollyfield is on the foundation's scientific advisory board and helped start the donor center 20 years ago. The center is moving from Philadelphia because its former overseer retired.
The eyes in the collection were donated at death by people with various retinal diseases.
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