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Jun 12, 2013
Patient Registries Help Advance Research for Rare Diseases
Many registries enable patients to collect and track information about their health, so they can take an active role in managing their care.
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Dec 27, 2021
In Memoriam: Dr. Alan Laties – Early Leader in Retinal Research
Alan M. Laties, MD, passed away on Sunday, December 26 at the age of 90.
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Nov 2, 2016
To Treat an Inherited Retinal Disease, It's Good to Know Exactly What's Wrong with the Gene
Identifying mutations cannot only help deliver a prognosis for a patient, it can direct them to clinical trials for therapies to save their vision.
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May 10, 2013
Grow Your Own: Harnessing Muller Glia for Retinal Regeneration
There’s hope for retinal regeneration for humans, thanks to Foundation-funded researcher Dr. Thomas Reh, who is investigating how to derive new photoreceptors from retinal cells called Muller glia.
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Mar 28, 2012
Vision Testing and Retinal Imaging in Clinical Trials: What Patients Can Expect
Because measuring changes is not always easy, people in clinical trials often undergo a number of different tests over one or several years. It can be challenging for the patient, but is necessary to determine if a treatment is working.
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May 1, 2023
Eric Pierce Receives Proctor Medal for Outstanding Achievements in Retinal Research
During his Proctor Award Lecture, Dr. Pierce reviewed encouraging clinical trial results for Editas’ CRISPR/Cas9 treatment for people with LCA10
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Oct 29, 2019
Iveric Bio’s Therapy Slows Retinal Degeneration in Phase 2b Trial for Dry AMD
Zimura inhibits a complement protein known as C5, a component of the immune system that, when overactive, can cause retinal degeneration.
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May 8, 2017
FFB Funding Helps Retinal Genetics Lab Secure $2 Million Investment
How the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) provided timely funding of $155,000 to help a lab at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), leverage a $2 million retinal-gene discovery project.
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May 12, 2015
ARVO 2015 Highlight: A Cut-and-Paste Approach to Fixing Retinal-Disease Genes
One of the hot topics at ARVO this year is a rapidly advancing gene-therapy approach called clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, or CRISPR.
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Retinal Therapeutics Innovation Summit 2025
- May 2, 2025
- 8:00 a.m. (MST)
- 170 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
The annual Retinal Therapeutics Innovation Summit 2025 is jointly organized by the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Oregon Health & Science University Casey Eye Institute.