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.
Professor Julie Silvestri is leading a Fighting Blindness project that aims to identify and genotype patients with inherited retinal disease in Northern Ireland. This is a Target 5000 project.
In 2021, Professor Kennedy was awarded a grant to continue research on zebrafish models of Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD), this work had previously been funded in part by Fighting Blindness.
Professor Sarah Doyle is based at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. This project explores the mechanisms relating to retinal degeneration in some of the leading causes of sight loss, AMD and RP.
Professor Cremers is leading a Fighting Blindness and HRB joint-funded project exploring macular disease-associated genes and risk factors.
Dr Adrian Dockery started work on this award while working in Professor Jane Farrar’s laboratory in Trinity College Dublin. This project is part of the Target 5000 programme.
ORBITAL is an innovative EU funded programme that will recruit and train early stage researchers (PhD students) in the area of drug delivery.
Learn more in this section about the previous research projects that Fighting Blindness has funded.