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03 Aug 2010
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) believe they may have found a potential new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a severe...
14 Jul 2010
In an excellent presentation at the 2010 Retina International congress, Professor Gerald Chader from the Doheny Institute in the USA set the detailed presentations to come in context by outlining various threads of RP research and the prospects for clinical trials in the near future. He went on to describe...
07 Jul 2010
Retina Inmplant AG, a leading developer of electronic implants to treat blindness, today announced that its founding chairman, Professor Eberhart Zrenner has been formally recognised by the 16th General Assembly of Retina International for his outstanding contribution to the work of the global retinal degenerative disease movement. This was along...
07 Jul 2010
Swiss researchers from the Friedrich Miescher Institute have restored sight to mice afflicted with retinitis pigmentosa. The results have been confirmed ex-vivo, on human tissue cultures. (Source, ScienceDaily.com). More ...
16 Jun 2010
RP Fighting Blindness has today published, for members, its annual omnibus of reports from the various research teams funded by the charity. The document, which...
17 May 2010
Today RP Fighting Blindness submitted its first annual report to the Big Lottery Fund on the RP research project being...
04 Mar 2010
A team of researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in the USA have reported successfully using embryonic stem cells to...
09 Feb 2010
RP Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce that three new grants totalling nearly £⅓m have been approved for research projects investigating potential treatments for retinitis pigmentosa. The grants, which are...
25 Nov 2009
Eye surgeons at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital have hailed their revolutionary `'bionic eye' trial on three of their Manchester patients a success after each of them regained some sight as a result of...
23 Nov 2009
Following Professor Dutton's decision to step down from our Medical Advisory Board earlier this year, we are pleased to confirm that Dr Susan Downes and Professor Paul Hiscott have agreed to...
