About Fighting Blindness Research
Fighting Blindness research teams are investigating treatments and cures for blindness caused by inherited and age-related conditions. We currently fund 12 projects in six centres around Ireland and one in the UK.
In the past three decades, Fighting Blindness has reached many milestones in the field of vision research. To read about our main achievments from 1983 through today, click here.
Our main areas of research are:
The research we fund will help find treatments and cures for degenerative eye conditions, such as:
To learn more these diseases and others, visit our Eye Condition section by clicking here.
Fighitng Blindness Research Staff work to directly employs research staff to manage our research strategy. To read profiles of our research staff, click here.
Fighting Blindness also works with leading researchers in Ireland and the UK. To read more about some of the people working with us to find cures for blindness, click here.