
Newly diagnosed? Connect with the Foundation Fighting Blindness for education, managing your condition, and finding support.
Learn More!Newly Diagnosed?
The diagnosis of a blinding disease is often overwhelming. But if you or a loved one has been recently diagnosed with an inherited retinal disease or age-related macular degeneration (AMD), getting connected to the Foundation Fighting Blindness is a great way to get educated, better manage your condition, and find support.
Since its founding in 1971, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has been dedicated to funding innovative research to find preventions, treatments, and cures for inherited retinal degenerative diseases that lead to blindness and affect more than 10 million people in the United States.
The Foundation currently funds over 134 research studies and 71 prominent research institutions and eye hospitals worldwide, including 15 dedicated research centers. In order to achieve our mission, we fund pioneering research in a comprehensive program that approaches possible cures and treatments from every promising angle.
Thanks to supporters like you, the Foundation has already restored vision in some clinical trial participants… and we’re committed to having a total of 30 clinical trials underway by 2030. We can now feel absolutely confident telling parents of young children that we will have better treatments – and even a cure – in their child’s lifetime.
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John Corneille, J.D.
Director of Legacy Giving
+1 (952) 314-7578
jcorneille[at]fightingblindness.orgThe urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher syndrome and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases. The Foundation is a beacon for those affected by these blinding diseases. Join the fight and help us accelerate our mission.
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