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Join the Retina UK membership today! Anyone is welcome to join; whether you are living with a sight loss condition yourself, related to somebody who is, or if you are working as a sight loss professional.

Join us for an inspiring webinar where four artists share their creative passions and journey with sight loss.

• Webinar
• Audio
• Video

Creating without limits: artistic expression and sight Loss

• Webinar

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.

• Look Forward
• Audio
• Written

Despite the knock-on effects of the pandemic, there’s been a lot going on this year in the world of research! Here are snapshots of a few stories that have appeared in the Research News section of our website in 2022.

• News

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.

• Case study - research
• Written

When we talk about gene therapy we are usually referring to use of a harmless virus, called a vector, to deliver a normal copy of a defective gene into the cells of the eye.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 7.00pm - 8.30pm - via Zoom - Come and join Martik and the group for our latest Young Adults online social catch up and an update on our first in-person team building activity day and focus group of the year.

• Local Peer Support Group

Nanoscope Therapeutics has announced positive results from their two year randomised controlled phase 2b optogenetic therapy trial for late-stage retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

• News
• Retinitis pigmentosa

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.

• Case study - community
• Written