Fighting Blindness and Prof Farrar have a long history of collaboration. This project is part of the Target 5000 program and is examining the DNA of people effected by inherited retinal diseases on the Island of Ireland to try and find a genetic cause for their conditions.
Professor Matt Campbell is leading EYE-D, a €3.2 million research project focused on identifying the underlying causes of some of the most common forms of blindness under the SFI Strategic Partnership Programme.
This project is co-funded by Fighting Blindness and the Health Research Board under the HRCI-HRB co-funding scheme. Through this study Prof. Blacque and his team at UCD are working on IRDs and specifically the Retinal Dystrophy in Ciliopathies.
Professor Sarah Doyle is based at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. Through this study, Prof. Doyle and her team are investigating how the immune system may play a role in the death of light-sensing cells in the eye during retinal degeneration, aiming to discover new ways to slow down vision loss.
Following a competitive application process, we awarded an Emerging Researcher Award in 2022 to Dr Lucia Celkova (Trinity College Dublin) for her project ‘Establishing an iPSC-derived RPE model to study…
Fighting Blindness is proud to be an associate partner for ProgRET, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network funded under Horizon Europe, working to advance our understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of autosomal dominant inherited retinal diseases (IRDs).
We are delighted to be an enterprise partner on three Research Ireland Enterprise Partnership Scheme Awards (previous IRC Enterprise Partnership Scheme Awards). Two scholars are based at UCD and one at SETU.
Learn more in this section about the previous research projects that Fighting Blindness has funded.