WORKING TO SAVE, RESTORE, AND PROTECT YOUR VISIONThe Foundation Fighting Blindness is urgently driving the research that’s putting an end to the entire spectrum of vision-robbing retinal degenerative diseases. Since 1971, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has raised more than $450 million in support of its mission to find preventions, treatments, and cures for blinding conditions such as macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and Usher syndrome. Collectively, these diseases affect more than 10 million people in the United States. The Foundation is the largest non-governmental supporter of retinal disease research in the world. Thanks to funding from the Foundation, human studies are now underway for gene therapy to cure blindness in children. Later-stage clinical studies of a tiny capsule that has the potential to save vision are also being conducted for retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, and Usher syndrome. The Foundation funds innovative research in a number of scientific areas including genetics, gene therapy, stem cell therapies, neuroprotection, and nutrition, at prominent institutions around the world. Thanks to the Foundation’s tireless efforts, all people with retinal degenerative diseases have hope for a future without blindness.
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