2025 Future Vision Honorees

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Dr. Geoff Tabin receives the FVF Luminary Award for his exceptional contributions to global health. Founded in 1995, the Cure Blindness Project (formerly the Himalayan Cataract Project), has treated over 5.2 million patients and performed over 750,000 eye surgeries across 16 countries, profoundly improving countless lives. An elite mountaineer, Dr. Tabin is the fourth person to climb the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each continent. He continues to set his sights ever higher, “Let’s overcome the mountain of global blindness.”

Dr. Mandeep Singh is an emerging leader in ophthalmology and vision research. He is the Andreas Dracopoulos Professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins, Co-Founder of the Johns Hopkins Genetic Eye Diseases Center, and a vitreoretinal surgeon in the Ocular Stem Cell and Translational Research section of the National Eye Institute/NIH. His breakthrough research investigates the application of pluripotent stem cells and retinal organoids as regenerative therapy for hereditary retinopathies. 

Dr. Jacque Duncan is a clinician scientist and a world leader in diagnosing and treating inherited retinal degenerations. She is Chair and Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California and Chair of the Foundation Fighting Blindness Scientific Advisory Board and Consortium which comprises over 45 clinical centers and 150 investigators to care for and study patients with inherited retinal degenerations.