On February 26, the Department of Ophthalmology of the Tashkent Medical Academy was visited by Dr. Eric Abdullaev, Director for Innovative Development of the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research, Florida, USA. Being a cardiac surgeon, who graduated from the Tashkent Medical Institute, our compatriot left for the USA in 1992, where he began to deal with the problem of transplantation of the cornea and eye banks. To date, Dr. Eric Abdullav is one of the outstanding experts in this field, he owns a lot of innovative developments, and he is the author of the world’s only book on eye banks. During the visit, Dr. Abdullaev gave 2 lectures on the current state of the eye banks and keratoplasty methods. The lecture was attended by 5th year students, staff, undergraduates and residents of the Department of Ophthalmology, as well as numerous doctors from other eye clinics.