Meet our community: The Kearney family
Emily Kearney is mum to four boys, aged four to 13, two of whom are living with an inherited sight loss condition.
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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.
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.
Retina UK employs a team of staff at our offices in Buckingham and remotely around the UK. Details of any vacancies will be posted below.
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.
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.
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.
It is important to avoid harming your vision, particularly if you have an inherited sight loss condition.
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.