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Fighting Blindness Newsletter November 2009 |
Greetings!
As the
first decade of the 21st Century draws to a close, Fighting Blindness can look back
at a remarkable period in its development.
This decade has seen a steady
increase in our research portfolio from 3 to 12 projects in centres
around Ireland. These projects continue to
yield breakthroughs of international significance in the search for cures for
blindness.
The scope of our work has grown over the
years. In 2002, we opened the Insight Counselling Centre to
provide support for our growing membership. We have also increased our role in patient
advocacy both home and abroad. Last year, we established the Fighting
Blindness Vision Research Institute to take our research to the next stage.
As the past 26 years at Fighting Blindness have shown, patients working together can make
improvements to their quality of life and to their futures.
Only with your help are we able to continue
our work. We hope you'll remember Fighting Blindness this Christmas by purchasing gifts or giving a donation to help us continue to fund world-leading research into treatments
and cures for blindness.
Kind regards,
The Fighting Blindness Team |
Leading Researchers Visit Dublin
Retina 09 Conference
We were pleased to host some of the world's
leading retinal researchers last month at our Retina 09 Conference. Nine researchers from the US, UK and Europe presented the latest developments in gene therapy, bio banking and
retinal implants. An impressive 27 junior researchers from Ireland and Northern Ireland also presented posters
highlighting their work indicating the robust research coming out of Irish universities.
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AGM 09Special guest speaker, Professor Joe
Hollyfield of the Cleveland Clinic, attended our AGM the following day to speak
to the crowd of 100 people that filled the Westbury Hotel. As always, our AGM
was open to the public and members to meet with Fighting Blindness staff and
researchers to learn about the our developments.
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March 26 - April 5, 2010
May 25 - 30, 2010 
