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Webinar: How your donations make a difference...in conversation with our new research grantees

Apr 12, 202457 min
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Episode description

Join Research Development Manager, Kate Arkell as she speaks to our latest research grantees about their projects.

  • PhD studentship: Dr Matteo Rizzi, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
    Investigating photopsia and photophobia in Stargardt disease.
  • PhD studentship: Chloe Brotherton, Edinburgh University
    Understanding why different RPGR gene mutations can lead to different diagnosis.
  • PhD studentship: Gabriel Velichkova, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
    Investigating Stargardt disease as a target for gene repair.
  • Professor Jacqueline van der Spuy, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
    The consequences of toxic accumulation of a molecule called cGMP in Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA).
  • Professor Jane Sowden, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
    Restoring some vision at the later stages of sight loss in advanced retinitis pigmentosa (RP) using a stem cell patch.
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