e-Newsletter December 2024
Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.
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Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.
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Emily Kearney is mum to four boys, aged four to 13, two of whom are living with an inherited sight loss condition.
We have created Discover Wellbeing to help people affected by inherited sight loss to develop an awareness of emotional wellbeing and the practical skills to adapt to life’s ups and downs.
We can provide all the support your organisation needs to work with us; from ideas to practical support and materials. The Retina UK team will help your contribution be as fun and rewarding as possible.
Join our upcoming webinar to hear from our Fundraising manager James Clarke, as he talks to some of our 2025 London Marathon runners!
Retina UK recently launched an innovative course, Discover Wellbeing, to help those living with inherited sight loss develop an awareness of emotional wellbeing and practical skills to adapt to life’s ups and downs.
A recently published study has described numerous disease mechanisms that appear to be common across different types of inherited sight loss, suggesting that there is significant potential for drug treatments that could work regardless of the underlying causative gene.
It’s not very often that we come across a researcher working on a project inspired by their own lived experience of a sight loss condition.
A discovery made as part of research funded by Retina UK has led to a prestigious award of $2.5 million, enabling scientists to undertake more in-depth investigations and work towards a treatment for a particular type of retinitis pigmentosa.