Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce that Professor Robin Ali will join the Fighting Blindness Vision Research Institute (FBVRI) as Associate Director.
 
Prof Ali, of University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital, is one of the world's leaders in developing gene therapy for retinal conditions. At the Fighting Blindness AGM in October he explained how he injected a replacement gene into patients with an eye condition called LCA which led to an improvement in the eyesight of one patient in particular - a young man called Steven Howarth.
 
Steven was also at our AGM (pictured above with FB Head of Research Prof Mike Comer, left, and Prof Robin Ali, right) to explain how the revolutionary new therapy - which is still at the early stages of development - had improved his life.
 
Prof Ali will be helping Fighting Blindness to establish the first dedicated Irish Vision Research Institute (which is based at DCU), and recruit high level staff to ensure its development into a world class centre for vision research.