The Lions Eye Bank of Texas at Baylor College of Medicine, is located in Houston within the Texas Medical Center, was founded in 1953 by Baylor and the Lions Cubs of the Texas Gulf Coast. It is a non-profit organization established as a joint effort between the Lions Clubs of the Texas Gulf Coast and Baylor College of Medicine. The Lions Eye Bank of Texas provides corneal tissue to surgeons across the Texas Gulf Coast and throughout the world.
The Lions Eye Bank of Texas exists to promote the work of the Lions Eye Bank of Texas at Baylor college of Medicine. In particular, provide community education and outreach programs about the importance of cornea donation, prevention for the causes of preventable corneal blindness along with providing corneas at no charge to patients in need of a transplant.
The Lions Eye Bank of Texas joins two key resources for sight enhancement and improvement. Lions Clubs have demonstrated nearly a century of commitment to fighting for the correction and rehabilitation of sight-threatening conditions. The Department of Ophthalmology of Baylor provides the clinical resources of corneal specialists and others to assist in oversight, training and quality management of eye banking and corneal transplants. These combined resources create one of the leading eye banks in the United States.
The Lions Eye Bank of Texas is committed to advancing sight restoration by recovering and providing quality donor eye tissue for corneal transplantation and research. Last year, over 1,100 people benefitted from improved sight from tissue provided by the Lions Eye Bank of Texas at Baylor College of Medicine.
By having fundraising events such as such as the online auction, the Lions Eye Bank of Texas of Texas is able to continue its educational and community outreach programs along with providing corneas at no charge to indigent patients in need of a transplant.