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Our young adults got to grips with white water rafting recently, building confidence and resilience while having fun.

• Look Forward
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The Spring 2023 edition of the Retina UK newsletter, Look Forward, which includes articles about our upcoming events, research updates and more.

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Tomasz Tomkiewicz is undertaking a PhD studentship funded by Retina UK and The Macular Society.

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As part of our aim to nurture young scientists, we are very pleased to introduce one of our new PhD students as part of a co-funding agreement with the Macular Society.

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Martin started volunteering for Retina UK in 2014 after retiring as a Chartered Civil Engineer.

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We’re all still buzzing from our recent conferences. We do hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. If you weren’t able to join us, then you can watch or listen to the recordings on our website.

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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.

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Rachael first noticed she had sight problems at the age of 15. She went to her local eye clinic, who said she had an astigmatism.

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Researchers in the Netherlands are developing a “retina-on-a-chip” that mimics the key layers of the human retina, offering a powerful new way to study inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) and test potential treatments using human cells.

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• Retinitis pigmentosa

Researchers from Ghent University have published a study that has the potential to transform inherited retinal disease (IRD) treatment development.

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