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FOUR NEW RESEARCH TEAMS ARE ON THE ROAD TO RESTORING SIGHT

Could a future stem cell replacement therapy restore vision to people who are living with blindness? That is Dr. David Gamm’s plan. Dr. Gamm is leading one of four teams that have...

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...

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...