Fight for Sight - Eye Research Matters
Health & Fitness:Medicine
What does it take to get ground-breaking research out of the lab and accessible to patients so that we can save sight and change lives? In this episode of the Eye Research Podcast, Professor Robert MacLaren discusses gene therapy for choroideremia, an inherited form of progressive blindness. Joe Pepper, or P14, who was a trial participant.
Fight for Sight and Vision Foundation Chief Executive Keith Valentine discusses the challenges of taking research from the lab through clinical trials to where it is widely available to patients. Specifically, they discuss some of the regulatory challenges and the need for policy changes so that more people can benefit from scientific breakthroughs.
CUREUsher with Stephen White
IBSA World Games with Alaina MacGregor and Monica Smith
Assistive Technology and the need for Reasonable Adjustments
Overcoming adversity with Paralympian Darren Harris
Episode 12 Louisa Wickham, National Clinical Director for Eye Care
Episode 11 - Funding the future generation of sight loss researchers
Keith Valentine in conversation with Dave Clarke, new chief executive of the British Paralympic Association
Episode 9 - Dr Zakariya Jarrar discusses AMD and the gut and working on the frontline during Covid-19
Episode 8 - Living with Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Episode 7: Professor Gus Gazzard discusses a more effective laser treatment for glaucoma
Episode 6: Challenge events and living with keratoconus
Episode 5: Professor Robert MacLaren discusses potential gene therapy for Stargardt disease
Episode 4: Living with Stargardt macular dystrophy
Episode 3: Living with glaucoma
Episode 2: Professor Keith Martin discusses a new way to repair the damage caused by glaucoma
Episode 1: Professor Pete Coffey discusses the latest breakthroughs in age-related macular degeneration
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