The Rector of King Saud University (KSU) Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al-Othman and Dean of Faculty of Medicine of University of Miami in Florida, United States of America, Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt, have recently signed here a joint cooperation agreement between Department of Ophthalmology of King Saud University and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami. The signing ceremony was attended by Head of Ophthalmology Department of KSU Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Saleh bin Ali Al-Obaidan who pointed out that the agreement aims to develop a research partnership between the two sides, noting that the Institute is one of the most prominent institutes of ophthalmology in the world and it has been classified for the seventh time in a row as the best center specialized in ophthalmology in the United States of America.