Fighting Blindness Canada

Using Gene Therapy to Treat Genetic Eye Disease Aniridia

In 2020, Fighting Blindness Canada awarded Dr Elizabeth Simpson at the University of British Columbia a research grant of $297,000 to support the...

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Transformative Research Into Retinal Degeneration

FBC announced $167 million in funding for two Transformative Research Awards which will push the boundaries of vision science Dr Marius Ueffing...

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A New Approach to Vision Restoration for Inherited Retinal Diseases

Dr Michel Cayouette’s team (University of Montreal) has found a way to reactivate cells in the retina and turn them into light-sensing cells,...

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Photograph of a child receiving an eye exam, with her parent close by. Eye exams are one of the first steps to diagnosing and managing childhood myopia.

Childhood Myopia

By Thomas Weissberger ep·i·dem·ic [ˌepəˈdemik] NOUNa widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular...

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Testing Two New Therapies to Restore Sight in Advanced Retinitis Pigmentosa

Kiora Pharmaceuticals has announced that they have dosed the first patient in a Phase 1 clinical trial for the photoswitch molecule KIO-301 This...

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