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An interview with Jacque Duncan, M.D.
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How does a retinal specialist diagnose a patient with a retinal disease?
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New Hope for Gene Therapy...A Young Boy's Fight Against Blindness
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The following video premiered at the 2010 BIO International Convention during the keynote address of BIO Chairman Dr. Stephen Sherwin. The video features young Corey Haas, a 9-year old boy with Leber congenital amaurosis whose sight has been restored by gene therapy, along our own Chief Research Officer Dr. Steve Rose and FFB-funded researcher Dr. Jean Bennett. Dr. Sherwin lauded gene therapy as a terrific success in biotechnology and medicine and just one example of how patience, persistence, and passionate support can pay off.
Video provided by WHITECOAT Strategies
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Envision
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Get to know the Foundation; view our most recent video, “Envision”.
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CBS News – October 26, 2009: Gene Therapy Restores Some Vision to Boy with LCA
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Blind Treatment in Sight
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A Very Special Thank You: VisionWalk
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You are my hero! You helped make this one of our most successful years ever for VisionWalk.
Our Board of Trustees is so impressed with what we’ve accomplished, they wanted to say thank you in person. Please take a moment to watch this short video message from Board member – and fellow walker – Eddie Russnow.
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TODAY Show Features Courageous Woman with Usher Syndrome
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 Despite the daunting challenges of progressive hearing and vision loss from Usher syndrome, Rebecca Alexander lives life actively, courageously, and thanks to the Foundation Fighting Blindness, with tremendous hope for a cure.
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Sacramento CBS13 News - Local Woman Loses Sight, Regains it with Treatment
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 Phyllis Deloe, who was blind from wet age-related macular degeneration, can now see, thanks to her doctor David Telander, M.D. at UC Davis Eye Center. Millions of Americans living with this and other retinal degenerative diseases have hope for treatment because of doctors like Telander and the research being funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Reported by Sacramento CBS13 News.
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Life Lessons - Sarah Nelinson Overcomes the Odds
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One Woman's Incredible Vision
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Jennifer Rothschild, an acclaimed speaker, publisher, and author, received the Foundation’s Hope & Spirit Award for her triumphs over blindness from retinitis pigmentosa.
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KENS5 San Antonio - Battling blindness one step at a time
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 Katelyn Grun is not your typical eighth grade student. At the age of seven, Katelyn was diagnosed with cone-rod dystrophy, a disease that has slowly robbed her of her vision. Today, she is legally blind. But, Katelyn and her family have not lost hope.
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ABC News - Cure for Blindness?
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Giving Eyesight to the Blind
Gene therapy could potentially restore to those suffering from blindness
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Good Morning America Coverage - Cure for Blindness?
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Now They See
Landmark Gene Therapy Provides Vision to Nearly Blind Young Adults
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VisionWalk - A Cure is in Sight
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VisionWalk is the national signature fundraising event of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Since it’s inception in the Spring of 2006, the program has raised over $4 million to fund sight-saving research. As promising treatments move into critical human studies, the need for research funding is greater than ever before.
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Nancy Kerrigan 30 Sec. PSA
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Nancy Kerrigan in a 30 second PSA for Foundation Fighting Blindness.
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Nancy Kerrigan 60 Sec. Vignette
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Nancy Kerrigan in a 60 second PSA for Foundation Fighting Blindness.
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