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A key priority for Fighting Blindness is to support the next generation of vision researchers. We recognise that training, networking and developing collaborations are key to the career development of early-stage career researchers and clinicians. Last November we opened our call for the Fighting Blindness Emerging Researcher Award. This was…

A key priority for Fighting Blindness is to support the next generation of vision researchers. We recognise that training, networking and developing collaborations is key to the career development of early-stage career researchers and clinicians. Our Fighting Blindness Career Development Award provides funding for PhD students, early…

Visionaries Newsletter Spring 2022 Eric Beggs, Fighting Blindess Star Fundraiser Dear Members, Friends and Supporters, At Fighting Blindness we have made the announcement that our Chief Executive, Kevin Whelan, is leaving us on May 6 to pursue other career ambitions. Kevin joined us in 2016 and has had…

Join us this April for our virtual Living with Sight Loss course. The popular confidence-building course is open to those living with vision impairment. The free course will begin on April 21, 2022 and runs every Thursday from 11am to 3pm (with a lunch break) for five weeks. The course…

We are very excited to announce further details about our award-winning Retina conference. 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 5 at the …

A huge thank you to everyone who entered the Fighting Blindness raffle draw for a  €2,000 holiday voucher to the Canary Islands. Your support means the world to us. The draw was held in Charlestown Shopping Centre and the winner’s name is to be published in the March 30 edition…

Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce that the Rotunda Hospital RetCam Appeal is growing ever closer to funding the equipment and training to assist medical staff in saving the sight of premature babies being cared for in the maternity hospital on Dublin’s northside. Smaller and more premature infants…

Aligned with our strategic goals, Fighting Blindness wish to support, nurture and promote the next generation of female researchers. With this in mind, we celebrated International Woman’s Day by hosting an online event on Tuesday, March 8 together with its4women,…

Fighting Blindness has presented a diamond award in ‘recognition and thanks’ to its sponsor, leading online car insurance company, its4women, for the ‘incredible and generous support’ that was instrumental in securing a RetCam machine for the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin;…

Aligned with its strategic goals, Fighting Blindness wish to support, nurture and promote the next generation of female researchers. We therefore invite you to join us and our guest speakers on our International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias event on March 8, kindly supported by its4women, as we discuss the…