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

Retina UK

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.