Game-Changing Discovery will “Rapidly Accelerate” the Development of Cell-Based Therapies
Today, we are excited to announce a truly transformative discovery that will “rapidly accelerate” the development of cell-based therapies—not just for blinding eye diseases, but for all kinds of regenerative medicine! One…
World Sight Day Announcement: the FBC launches the Cedric Ritchie Fund to Cure Blindness
The Canadian scientist Dr. Andras Nagy, Senior Investigator at Mount Sinai’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, was announced as the inaugural recipient of the Cedric Ritchie Fund to Cure Blindness: a new $1.5 million initiative…
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…
2018 Summer InVision Newsletter
Our 2018 Summer InVision newsletter is now fully accessible and available online! This issue includes the following stories: – Promising Results Show the Potential for Stem-Cell Therapies to Restore Vision– Stem Cells…
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