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  Jun 8, 2018

  Foundation Fighting Blindness and CheckedUp® Partner to Educate Retinal-Disease Patients About Research, Resources, and Emerging Therapies During Doctor Visits

  The Foundation Fighting Blindness (the Foundation) and CheckedUp have formed a collaborative partnership to deliver patient-friendly diagnostic and disease-management information to people with retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and Stargardt disease during their visits to eye doctors.

  Foundation News
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  Jan 9, 2018

  A Retinal Research Nonprofit Paves the Way for Commercializing Gene Therapies

  AN EMERGING, vision-restoring gene therapy for a devastating retinal disease is poised for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. If it gets the regulatory nod, it will be the first gene therapy to receive FDA approval for the eye or an inherited condition.

  In the Press
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  Aug 7, 2017

  Sight and Song: The Christian Guardino Story

  Christian Guardino has been singing for as long as he can remember; it’s the seeing that is something new.

  Beacon Stories

• Apr 4, 2011

  Researchers Take another Critical Step toward Using Skin Cells to Treat Retinal Disease

  A research team funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness used an innovative repair technique to correct the disease-causing genetic defect in stem cells derived from a person’s skin — stem cells that hold the potential to treat their retinal degenerative condition.

  Foundation News