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ANNOUNCING THE 2022 CLINICIAN-SCIENTIST EMERGING LEADER AWARDS!

Fighting Blindness Canada’s (FBC’s) Clinician Scientist Emerging Leader Awards (CSELA) were launched in 2017 to build the pipeline of ophthalmologists and optometrists who also do research. Clinician-scientists help translate laboratory research into...

RECAP FROM ARVO: THE LATEST IN VISION RESEARCH

In May, FBC attended the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado for five days of learning and discussing with leaders in vision research. Here are...

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$2.5 MILLION RESEARCH COMPETITION TO DRIVE TREATMENTS FOR RETINAL DEGENERATION

We’re excited to give our eNews readers a sneak peek at a new initiative Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) is launching this month. This competition will solicit applications from the best and brightest...

ADVANCES IN AMD RESEARCH: HIGHLIGHTS FROM VIEW POINT

This February we recognized Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Month with a special View Point. Our expert panel discussed geographic atrophy (GA), new research on a potential antibody treatment, biosimilars and more....

OPTOGENETIC THERAPY TO TREAT VISION LOSS

Optogenetic therapy uses gene editing to add light-sensing molecules to cells. These cells can then be turned on and off by light. This technique has been used in research for many years...

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