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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.

A recording of the Retina UK Annual Conference on 28 September 2024. The Conference was held at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester and online.

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A recording of the Retina UK Professionals' Conference on 27 September 2024. The Conference was held at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester and online.

• Conference
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• Video

Since we were founded in 1976, we have invested more than £16.5million into some of the most pioneering medical research - because of amazing supporters like you.

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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.

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On a typical week in the stem cell lab there are many different experiments going on. Different people work on their individual projects, but we often collaborate to share ideas and help each other.

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A discovery made as part of research funded by Retina UK has led to a prestigious award of $2.5 million, enabling scientists to undertake more in-depth investigations and work towards a treatment for a particular type of retinitis pigmentosa.

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We provide funding for innovative, high quality research projects investigating the causes and potential treatments for all forms of inherited retinal disease.

Jing Yu is a bioinformatician with the Eye Research Group at Oxford University, and is part of the UK Inherited Retinal Dystrophy Consortium (UKIRDC) team, funded by a Retina UK  grant.

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