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The five-year grant will advance the emerging treatments toward clinical trials
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Brint Family Translational Research Award
The Brint Family Translational Research Program awards will accelerate the movement of preclinical research toward an Investigational New Drug filing and into clinical trials to provide a robust and diverse pipeline of potential therapies to fight inherited retinal degenerations (IRD) and dry age-related macular degeneration.
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Nobel-Prize-Winning Stem-Cell Researcher Delivers Keynote at FFB-Funded Conference in Kyoto
Research NewsDr. Shinya Yamanka discussed his early clinical trial for iPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells for a 78-year-old woman with advanced wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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VISIONS 2015 — Dr. Shannon Boye Receives FFB Award for Excellence in Gene-Therapy Research
Research NewsDr. Boye received the Foundation’s Board of Director’s Award, which was presented at VISIONS 2015, FFB’s annual conference, for achievements in retinal research.
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Atsena’s XLRS Gene Therapy Shows Efficacy in Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial
Research NewsThe XLRS gene therapy was well tolerated and resolved damaging schisis cavities in patients receiving the lowest dose.
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Opus Reports Vision Improvements for Patients in LCA5 Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
Research NewsThe company plans to administer a higher dose of the emerging gene therapy to the next group of patients.
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Research News
Geographic atrophy (GA) is the advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which causes blindness in one million people in the United States and 5 million worldwide.
This is the first time that a treatment has been approved for this leading cause of blindness.
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Atsena Therapeutics Developing X-Linked Retinoschisis Gene Therapy
Research NewsThe emerging gene therapy is being designed to more safely reach the fovea
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Research News
The emerging treatment targets a specific mutation (c.2991+1655A>G in Intron 26) of the gene CEP290 which causes Leber congenital amaurosis 10 (LCA 10)
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Fighting RP on the Foundation’s Frontline
Beacon StoriesMichelle Glaze, the Foundation’s associate director of professional outreach, shared her personal story of being diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in the film ‘Decoding disease.‘ In her own words, Michelle also describes her journey with genetic testing and the Foundation Fighting Blindness’ impact on her life.
