Retina UK set to feature in BBC Lifeline Appeal
Catch up on our BBC Lifeline Appeal from November 2025.
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Belite Bio – Phase 2/3 Trial for Adolescents with Stargardt disease
The latest research news piece from Retina UK.
e-Newsletter December 2025
Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.
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Our community are the reason we are able to continue supporting those with inherited sight-loss conditions through research and practical support.
Meet a Researcher: Hajrah Sarkar
Hajrah Sarkar is a PhD student whose project is funded by Retina UK.
Webinar: “Mini-Retina” – the future of restored vision
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.
Meet a Researcher: Jing Yu
Jing Yu is a Research Assistant at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Look Forward – Spring 2023 – Issue 179
The Spring 2023 edition of the Retina UK newsletter, Look Forward, which includes articles about our upcoming events, research updates and more.
Meet our community: Mark Baxter
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.
Inheritance patterns
Your doctor or genetic counsellor will spend some time asking about other people in your family to try to work out the way in which your particular faulty gene has been passed down through the generations – this is referred to as the inheritance pattern.