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Jul 25, 2022
The emerging therapy is designed to restore vision for people with advanced retinal degenerative diseases
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Jul 25, 2022
Discovering Confidence Through Vulnerability
Fashion and Lifestyle Blogger Lindi Goff is sharing her authentic self by being vulnerable about her journey with Stargardt disease.
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Jul 22, 2022
Apellis’ Treatment for Advanced Dry AMD to Receive Priority Review from FDA
There are currently no FDA-approved therapies for geographic atrophy (GA), the advanced form of dry AMD.
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Jul 21, 2022
RD Fund Announces New Chair, and Expansion of Board of Directors
RD Fund Board member and seasoned ophthalmology leader Adrienne Graves, PhD, appointed chair. Ophthalmology luminaries Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Catherine Bowes Rickman, PhD, and José-Alain Sahel, MD, to join the board.
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Jul 14, 2022
Endogena Launches Clinical Trial of Therapy to Activate Stem Cells in RP Patients’ Retinas
The emerging treatment is gene-agnostic.
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Jul 11, 2022
Eye on the Prize Winner: Josh/Nicholls State University
This year, the Foundation created a new fundraising initiative called Eye on the Prize, influenced by March Madness. The winner of the inaugural Eye on the Prize competition was Nicholls State University, raising $2,428. This winning team was led by Josh Cogswell, an assistant professor of management at Nicholls State University, who has his own personal connection to the Foundation’s mission.
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VISIONS 2022 Session Recordings
VISIONS 2022, the national conference of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, is a one-of-a-kind event in which individuals who are visually impaired, and their families, have the opportunity to hear about exciting advancements in blindness research.
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Jun 27, 2022
Kiora to Launch Clinical Trial in Australia for Vision-Restoring Small Molecule for RP Patients
The approach bestows light sensitivity to retinal ganglion cells for people who have lost their photoreceptors
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Jun 21, 2022
Foundation Fighting Blindness Announces Leadership Changes
Jason Menzo named chief executive officer • Russell Kelley, PhD, MBA, appointed managing director of the RD Fund • Ben Yerxa, PhD, to lead Opus Genetics, the first RD Fund- and Foundation-backed spin-off company.
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Jun 20, 2022
The newly approved drug reduces the pathologic hunger associated with BBS