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Research Core Award: Non-rodent Large Animal Award
The Research Core Award provides funding support to individuals or teams striving to identify, development, characterize and support relevant large animal models of inherited retinal disease (IRD) or dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD) that are poorly modeled in rodents for which canine models do not currently exist, such as Stargardt disease and Usher syndrome.
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Oct 1, 2019
AGTC Reports Promising Interim Results for XLRP and Achromatopsia Gene Therapy Trials
AGTC used Foundation’s My Retina Tracker registry to recruit patients for trials
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May 2, 2019
ARVO 2019: Emerging Eloxx Molecules Show Promising Results in Usher Models
Eloxx Pharmaceuticals is developing small molecules that permit read-through of point mutations that cause Usher syndrome 1F and 2A.
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Investing in Cures Summit - March 2, 2019
Audio from the 2019 Investing in Cures Summit, held on March 2, 2019
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Apr 9, 2018
Study Suggests Vitamin A May Benefit Children with RP
An FFB-funded study at Massachusetts Eye andEar Infirmary (MEEI) suggests that vitamin A palmitate supplementation may slow the decline of cone function by nearly 50 percent in children with retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
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Mar 7, 2018
Natural History Study Launches for LCA Caused by Specific Mutation in CEP290
The natural history study will be used to characterize the range of visual function in patients, to evaluate which visual tests may be the most useful for patients with this condition, and to determine the rate of change in visual function over a one-year period.
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May 16, 2017
Clinical Trial Authorized in the U.S. for Emerging LCA 10 Therapy
ProQR, a biotechnology company in the Netherlands, has received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to start a Phase I/II clinical trial for its therapy known as QR-110
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Mar 16, 2017
Unregulated Stem-Cell Therapy Causes Severe Vision Loss for Three Florida Women
“…participation in a study for an emerging therapy that is not regulated by the FDA or another well-recognized regulatory agency like the European Medicines Agency in Europe, is fraught with dangers and can lead to unexpected serious consequences.”
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Jun 6, 2016
Fighting Blindness Gets Sheepish
Researchers in Israel are developing a gene therapy for achromatopsia that may help both sheep and humans alike.
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May 5, 2016
ARVO 2016: High-School Sophomore Finds Gene Mutation in Family with Choroideremia
Aditya A. Guru, 16, used whole exome sequencing (WES), an innovative genetic-screening technology, to find the mutation.