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Genetic testing, usually via a blood sample, is used to try and identify which gene contains the fault that is causing an individual’s sight loss.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join Mark Baxter and the group for our latest meeting where we will be discussing how to make the most of our home assistants to make our homes smarter and safer.

• Local Peer Support Group

VisionAid is a family owned and run business who have been providing solutions to visually impaired people since 1996 and are now one of the largest specialist low vision and blindness product suppliers in the UK.

• Webinar
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A recording of the 45th Retina UK Annual Conference on 9 July 2022. The Conference was held at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham and also online.

• Conference
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Stem cells are a special type of cell, which under the right conditions can be encouraged to grow into any other type of cell in the body, including retinal cells (rods, cones and retinal pigment epithelial cells).

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.

• Look Forward
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With more treatments coming through the development pipeline, we are all hopeful that more of those living with inherited sight loss will be offered the opportunity to take part in clinical trials in the years to come.

• Webinar
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We were joined for this popular ‘Ask the expert’ session by Samantha de Silva, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Oxford Universities Hospital Trust.

• Webinar
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Have you ever been tempted to take part in the TCS London Marathon? In 2022 the TCS London Marathon raised £58.3 million for charity so it’s a vital source of income.

• Webinar
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Nikolas is a bioinformatician, who uses computer power to tackle medical research challenges.

• Webinar
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