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A recording of the Retina UK Professionals' Conference on 8 July 2022. The Conference was held at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham and also online.

• Conference
• Audio
• Video

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.

Tomasz Tomkiewicz is undertaking a PhD studentship funded by Retina UK and The Macular Society.

• Case study - research
• Written

The following projects were being funded by Retina UK and have recently come to an end.

Saturday 28 June, 1.00pm - 7.00pm - In-person - Come and join Colin Hetherington and the group for their latest social event at the Tyneside Irish Centre in Newcastle.

• Local Peer Support Group

We are proud to work collaboratively with a number of corporate partners to enable our community to live fulfilled lives today as well as supporting the pharmaceutical industry in their mission to develop potential new treatments.

Luxturna, a gene therapy, is only for the treatment of Leber congenital amaurosis type 2 (LCA2) and severe early-onset RP caused by mutations in a specific gene called RPE65.

• FAQ
• Written

Genetic counsellors are specially trained healthcare professionals with extensive scientific knowledge who spend time talking to families living with inherited conditions.

Fast & flat, the course is ideal if it’s your first half marathon or you are looking for a PB. The Edinburgh Half Marathon has sold out every year since 2012 and is one of the largest half marathons in the UK and you could be there in 2025!

• Running
• Scotland

Held annually since 1982, the race begins in the city centre, before moving out of Edinburgh into East Lothian and finishes at Musselburgh in East Lothian. Are you ready to run for Retina UK?

• Running
• Scotland