Discover Wellbeing
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.
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How we can work together
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.
Webinar: Looking after your emotional health
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.
Potential drug targets identified for RP
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.
Retina UK-funded discovery leads to $2.5 award for further research
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.
Meira GTx announces positive data from phase clinical trial
Biotechnology company MeiraGTx has announced encouraging news from its phase 1/2 clinical trial of botaretigene sparoparvovec (previously known as AAV-RPGR), a gene therapy aimed at X-linked retinitis pigmentosa caused by faults in the RPGR gene.
Contact our Helpline
The content on this site will have answered some of your queries about inherited sight loss and associated syndromes, but everyone’s circumstances are different and you may have further questions.
Looking after your vision
It is important to avoid harming your vision, particularly if you have an inherited sight loss condition.
Oxfordshire information event (online)
Our Keynote speaker will be Mr Kanmin Xue. Mr Xue is a Consultant Vitreo-retinal Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Wellcome Trust clinician scientist fellow at the University of Oxford where he leads the Retinal Disease and Repair Group.
Meet our Trustee: Dr Elizabeth Graham FRCP FRCOphth
Dr Graham undertook research into the basic mechanisms of retinal vasculitis, inflammation of the blood vessels in the retina, and is an important cause of poor vision in patients with uveitis, inflammation of the uveal tract.