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Join us and the Low Vision Team from Focus Birmingham talk about how you can access your local low vision service, the benefits of a low vision assessment and see some of the equipment that can be provided to you.
Genetic testing, usually via a blood sample, is used to try and identify which gene contains the fault that is causing an individual’s sight loss.
Our amazing volunteers are diverse in age, background and ethnicity. The one thing they have in common is that they are all living with, or directly affected by, 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.
Mini-retinas are essentially mini eyeballs in a dish. They contain all of the cell types in the human retina and we can perform many experiments on these to figure out the missing pieces in the puzzle.
My name is Mark Baxter and from an early age I was diagnosed with a deteriorating retinal eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa or RP for short, which will slowly lead to blindness.
A recording of the 45th Retina UK Annual Conference on 9 July 2022. The Conference was held at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham and also online.
An unmissable event for people of all ages living with varying degrees of sight loss, professionals supporting and advising VIP's and for all businesses and other organisations wishing to improve their services for the visually impaired.
An unmissable event for people of all ages living with varying degrees of sight loss, professionals supporting and advising VIP’s and for all businesses and other organisations wishing to improve their services for the visually impaired.
An unmissable event for people of all ages living with varying degrees of sight loss, professionals supporting and advising VIP’s and for all businesses and other organisations wishing to improve their services for the visually impaired.
