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News

Photoreceptor transplants restore vision in mice

Europe's first safety trial investigating the transplantation of stem cell-derived retinal cells in Stargardt disease

Key achievements

The world's first eye gene therapy trial - JWB Bainbridge et al. N Engl J Med. 2008

Cell therapy repairs the retina - Pearson RA et al Nature 2012

The first proof-of-concept in eye gene therapy - RR Ali et al. Nat. Genet. 2000

Our latest blog posts

It’s OK to ask about clinical research – an NIHR campaign

‘Defining future eye research’ – a chance for you to help tackle slight loss

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UCL/Moorfields

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo

University College London
www.ucl.ac.uk

Moorfields Eye Hospital
www.moorfields.org.uk

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre
http://www.brcophthalmology.org/

UCL Institute of Child Health
www.ich.ucl.ac.uk

Collaborators

Prof. Tiansen Li
www.howelaboratory.harvard.edu/default.htm

Prof. Alan Wright
www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/Research/Cellgen/Retinopathies/qtl_ip.html

Prof. Andrew Dick
www.bristol.ac.uk/clinicalsciencesouth/torc/ophthalmology/research/iedg/interests.html

Prof. Adrian Thrasher
www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/Molecular_immunology/Homepage

Dr Jane Sowden
www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/academics_students/stem_cell_research.html

Dr Yvan Arsenijevic
http://www.eyeregeneration.ch/home.html

Dr Alberto Auricchio
http://www.tigem.it/researchers/auricchio/auricchio_alberto.html

Prof. Simon Petersen-Jones
http://cvm.msu.edu/hospital/services/ophthalmology/the-ophthalmology-team 

Prof. Masayo Takahashi
http://www.riken.go.jp/engn/r-world/research/lab/cdb/retinal/index.html

Charities

For more information on eye research we recommend the following societies and organizations:

Moorfields Eye Charity
http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/Getinvolved/MoorfieldsEyeCharity

RP Fighting Blindness (formerly BRPS)
http://www.rpfightingblindness.org.uk/

Fight for Sight
www.fightforsight.org.uk

Retina International
http://www.retina-international.org/

Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB)
www.blindness.org/

Eye conditions and support groups

AMD Alliance International
www.amdalliance.org

Be AMD Aware
www.beamdaware.co.uk

The Eye Cancer Network
www.eyecancer.com

The Eye Disease list
www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/C11.html

EyeUK
www.eyecharity.com

The Glaucoma Foundation, USA
www.glaucomafoundation.org/index.php

Glaucoma Research Foundation
www.glaucoma.org

Macular Degeneration Support
www.mdsupport.org

Macular Degeneration Network
www.macular-degeneration.org 

Macular Society
http://www.macularsociety.org/


National Association for Visually Handicapped, USA
www.navh.org

Patient Information Publications
www.patient.co.uk

Royal National College for the Blind
www.rncb.ac.uk

Other organisations

The Association for Research in Vision Ophthalmology (ARVO)
www.arvo.org

European association for Vision Eye Research (EVER)
www.ever.be

American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT)
www.asgt.org

European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT)
www.esgct.org

British Society for Gene Therapy (BSGT)
www.bsgt.org.uk

Retinal Information Network (RETNET)
www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/Retnet

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