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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...

ANNOUNCING THE FBC’S VISION CARE PATHWAYS

Along with the brain, the eye is one of the human body’s most intricate components, an elaborate collection of parts working in tandem to do one thing: gather external light and focus...

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...

10 YEARS OF CYCLE FOR SIGHT

In 2009, Dave Sweeny, Michael Ovens, Erin George, and Martin de Sousa came together to develop a new way to raise funds in the fight against blindness. Their vision became a reality...

FBC ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH BAYER TO DRIVE VISION RESEARCH IN CANADA

At Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC), our goal is to drive the development and availability of treatments and cures for blinding eye diseases. Curing blindness is a gargantuan mission, but we know it’s...

PROTECTING PATIENTS BY ENCOURAGING OVERSIGHT: CAN CIVIL LAWSUITS HELP?

Stem cell treatments have been advertised as miracle cures for many illnesses, including vision loss—but not all advertised “treatments” work, and some have even proven dangerous. Last year, three patients with age-related...