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The BBC covered a story on Monday 24 May about optogenetics partially restoring the sight of a man living with retinitis pigmentosa in France.

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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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Saturday 5 September 2026, 12.30pm - 4.00pm - In-person - Please come and join facilitator Bhavini Makwana and the group at the Elephant & Barrel in Stockwell for a special celebration looking back on 50 years of peer support in London & the Southeast.

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Tribute to Retina UK founder Lynda Cantor MBE

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Nurturing a new generation of scientists is a vital investment in the future of retinal disease research, so we are delighted to be funding, in collaboration with the Macular Society, a new PhD studentship at Oxford University, supervised by Professor Robert MacLaren.

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Bhavini was diagnosed with RP in 1997 aged 17. The consultant who confirmed her diagnosis told her that “there was no cure or treatment and she should prepare to go blind".

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Hajrah Sarkar is a PhD student whose project is funded by Retina UK.

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Several groups around the world are investigating the use of retinal transplantation in the treatment of inherited retinal diseases.

You may have heard that a cell-based treatment approach (sometimes referred to as a “stem cell treatment”), developed by a company called ReNeuron, is being tested in a clinical trial at Oxford Eye Hospital and other centres in the US and Europe.

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