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During our 50th anniversary year, Retina UK was the focus of a BBC Lifeline Appeal on Sunday 16 November 2025.
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During our 50th anniversary year, Retina UK was the focus of a BBC Lifeline Appeal on Sunday 16 November 2025.
Last year, with your help, we raised an incredible £53,752, which made great strides in helping our medical research recover from the pandemic.
Research into inherited retinal conditions is one of the key objectives of Retina UK.
These are some of the most commonly asked questions about genetic testing and counselling.
The latest research news from Retina UK.
Katerina joined the Retina UK team at the start of 2023 after hearing about the charity through her involvement in a research project at the University of Bath, where she works as an academic.
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As Luxturna reaches the clinic and other gene-specific therapies for inherited retinal disease get closer to the end of the development pipeline, it is becoming ever more important that affected families can access a genetic diagnosis, potentially opening up choices around treatment and clinical trial participation.
Elena Piotter, a PhD student working in Robert MacLaren’s group in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, is currently researching DNA and RNA base editing tools aiming to correct pathogenic mutations in ABCA4.