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Helpful Links How the Eye Works Eye Diseases New Treatments & Clinical Trials Genetic Testing Newly Diagnosed with an Eye Disease Resources If you have eye health related questions, contact our Health...

LISTEN TO DR. CHAD ANDREWS ON CAT’S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES PODCAST, BANTER

Our Senior Manager of Research and Education, Dr. Chad Andrews, recently appeared on Banter, a podcast run by Canadian Assistive Technologies. Beginning at 26:30, he discusses the state of FBC-funded stem cell...

2018 IMPACT REPORT

Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) reached new heights in 2018, and now, as a community, we are poised to bring incredible and life-changing treatments to the millions of Canadians affected by eye diseases....

FROM IDENTIFYING GENE MUTATIONS TO DEVELOPING NEW TREATMENTS FOR INHERITED RETINAL DISEASES

Clinician-Scientist Emerging Leader Award: Dr. Matthew Benson Dr. Matthew Benson knows that improving our understanding of why blinding eye diseases happen will lay foundations for developing effective new treatments. He is particularly...

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...

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