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Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce the appointment of Finbarr Roche to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Finbarr has a record of significant achievement in both the commercial and not-for-profit sector, holding several senior management roles over the past 10 years serving the needs of the vision…

Fighting Blindness has commissioned an independent review of the Insight Counselling Service. Any interested person, especially those past or current users of the service, is invited to engage in one of a number of workshops. These will be formed as small focus groups that will be externally facilitated,…

Fighting Blindness is proud to support the innovative EYE-D project, a new research project into degenerative retinal diseases, led by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, today announced an award of €3.2 million to the EYE-D research project…

Our Retina 2022 conference is taking place this year on November 3-5 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin City. On Friday, November 4, 2022, the Scientific Programme of Retina 2022 is taking place and we have been accepting abstracts to be considered for poster display and/or poster sizzlers as well as short…

Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce the success of Dr. Oliver Blacque (UCD) in the latest round of the HRCI-HRB Joint Funding Scheme. Dr. Blacque’s project, which will be co-funded by Fighting Blindness and the Health Research Board (HRB), is titled “Retinal Dystrophy in…

We’re excited to tell you everything about our latest fundraising effort that we’re taking part in, with the generous support of its4women! Driving the Cure: Gary McClarty & Peter Ryan’s Paris2Nice Challenge in aid of Fighting Blindness. Peter Ryan, Paralympian,…

Trinity team’s new gene therapy shows promise for treating eye conditions affecting millions across the globe. Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have developed a new gene therapy approach that shows promise for treating the dry form of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) – a progressive eye…

Fighting Blindness recently offered Career Development Awards to early-stage researchers and clinicians for training, networking, and collaborations to support their career development. Two of our Career Development Award recipients were previously awarded funding to attend ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) 2022 in May. Our third…

We are very excited to announce further details about our award-winning Retina conference. As previously mentioned, after two years of successfully hosting the conference virtually, we will be back to an in-person event once again. This year our conference will be running on November 3, 4 and…

We are delighted to announce that the Fighting Blindness funded Target 5000 team won the award for the “Best scientific paper in Ophthalmology for 2021” in the RAMI (Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland) awards. The selected paper was submitted by the lead author…