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May 3, 2024 Foundation Podcasts
Eye on the Cure Podcast | Episode 65: Matthew Whitaker
Matthew Whitaker talks to host Ben Shaberman about his remarkable achievements and success as a young jazz pianist and composer. Matthew was born three months prematurely and weighed less than two pounds. The oxygen he needed to stay alive also caused total blindness. But now 23 years old, the renowned music prodigy has recorded four albums, received several honors and awards, and appeared on TV shows such as Showtime at the Apollo, the Today Show, Ellen, and 60 Minutes.
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May 1, 2024
Foundation Fighting Blindness To Host Annual 2024 Gala Night for Sight
The May 9th gala will raise awareness and fund research leading to treatments and cures for blinding diseases.
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Apr 16, 2024
Eye on the Cure Podcast | Episode 64: Dr. Kapil Bharti
Kapil Bharti, PhD, a senior investigator and director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Eye Institute (NEI), talks with host Ben Shaberman about his clinical trial underway for an innovative cell therapy for geographic atrophy (advanced dry age-related macular degeneration) as well as a clinical trial of the drug metformin for Stargardt disease.
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Apr 3, 2024
The Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Retinal Degeneration (RD) Fund hosted their annual Investing in Cures Summit (ICS) on March 8 and 9, 2024, to highlight the progress in development of treatments and cures for the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.
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Apr 3, 2024
Recording Available: Foundation Insights Forum – March 20, 2024
The Foundation Fighting Blindness is pleased to provide a recording and full transcript of the Insights Forum, our quarterly conference call providing updates to the blinding diseases community. The call took place on March 20, 2024.
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Mar 25, 2024
Collaboration will add a new multi-gene cohort of patients living with inherited retinal diseases. Data insights from the new study cohort will inform the future clinical trial design for BlueRock’s pipeline of cell therapies for treating blindness.
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Mar 8, 2024
Eye on the Cure Podcast | Episode 63: Dr. Hema Ramkumar
Hema Ramkumar, MD, a retinal specialist, surgeon, and founder of the company Oculogenex, talks with host Ben Shaberman about her emerging therapy that targets mitchondria to slow the progression of intermediate dry age-related macular degeneration and potentially other retinal diseases. She also discusses her experiment that will put mice in space so researchers can gain a better understanding of retinal degeneration.
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Feb 23, 2024
Eye on the Cure Podcast | Episode 62: Dr. Peter Quinn
Peter Quinn, PhD, a principal investigator and associate research scientist at Columbia University, talks to host Ben Shaberman about the promise of emerging CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing therapies, including base and prime editing approaches, for inherited retinal diseases. Dr. Quinn also reviews gene editing projects ongoing in his lab for patients with mutations in CRB1 and PRPH2.
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Feb 15, 2024
The May 9th gala will raise awareness and fund research leading to treatments and cures for blinding retinal diseases.
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Feb 13, 2024
The free, online event on March 20, 2024, will feature presentations from Rachel Huckfeldt, MD, PhD, Mass Eye and Ear, and Rachelle Lin, OD, Ketchum University.
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Feb 6, 2024
Foundation Fighting Blindness Launches GYROS, a Natural History Study for People with Gyrate Atrophy
Gyrate atrophy is an inherited retinal disease—causing progressive vision loss. GYROS results will help researchers design clinical trials for an emerging gyrate atrophy gene therapy.