e-Newsletter May 2025
Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.
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Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.
The Retina UK community is sometimes targeted by adverts online or in social media, offering invasive treatments for inherited sight loss.
					        Did you join either of our Conferences this year? You can read about them inside this edition of Look Forward. We’ve had some fantastic feedback from our delegates so if you weren’t able to attend, you can watch or listen to the recordings from the day on our website.
					        “Being part of something and feeling that you are not alone,” are just two of the positive benefits Cindy Peacock says she experiences as a volunteer with Retina UK.
					        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.
					        Tomasz Tomkiewicz is undertaking a PhD studentship funded by Retina UK and The Macular Society.
					        This edition includes exciting news about our Annual and Professionals’ Conferences. We hope as many of you as possible can join us in Manchester, or online, in September. You’ll also find updates about the latest research and a feature on one of our funded researchers, Dr Jörn Lakowski.
					        Inside this edition, set yourself a challenge in 2024, plus find out about our brand new lottery.
					        Since the publication of this newsletter our founder and honorary president Lynda Cantor MBE has passed away. We are all deeply saddened by this news.
					        Aged 20, James was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at a routine eye appointment in September 2015 and registered partially sighted, just prior to buying his first car and taking his driving test.