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Listen to Dr. Chad Andrews on AMI’s The Pulse

Dr. Chad Andrews, our Manager of Research and Education, recently appeared on the AMI podcast The Pulse to discuss Cycle for Sight (4:00), recent breakthroughs in gene therapy (7:40), Dr. Michel Cayouette’s…

Decades of Service to the FBC Community

This past August, Sharon Colle, President and CEO of Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) announced that she will be retiring at the end of 2018. We recently sat down with Sharon to discuss…

$3.09 million in funding for blinding eye diseases is “a real success story for FBC”

When Dr. Michel Cayouette learned the astounding news that he had been awarded $3.09 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support his research into blinding eye diseases for…

Are You Living with Glaucoma?

Are you currently living with glaucoma? If so, we at Fighting Blindness Canada would like to learn about your experiences with the disease so that we can help build a better future…

Dr. Mike Sapieha Wins Prestigious Cogan Award

Did you know that obesity is the second most important environmental risk factor for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? At Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC), we are very proud to be funding Dr….

The Talking Eye: Understanding the Retina as a Communications System

Like any part of the human body, the eye only functions when its various parts communicate effectively—in other words, when they “talk” to one another. In fact, the importance of communication is…

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