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Tuesday, 9 June 2026
World Eye Donation Day
The world’s first successful cornea transplant and eye tissue donation occurred on December 7, 1905. Austrian ophthalmologist Dr. Eduard Konrad Zirm performed the historic surgery in Olomouc (now part of the Czech Republic), successfully restoring the sight of an injured laborer using corneas donated from a deceased 11-year-old boy.
First Eye Bank (1944): Dr. R. Townley Paton founded the world's first formal eye bank, the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, in New York City, establishing a structured system to collect, evaluate, and distribute donor tissue.
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Whole-Eye Transplant (2023):
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York performed the world's first
partial-face and whole-eye transplant on a utility worker named Aaron James.
While the transplant successfully survived and maintained blood flow, restoring
vision in a transplanted whole eyeball remains a frontier under medical
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