FFB Funding Helps Retinal Genetics Lab Secure $2 Million Investment

This is a great story of how the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) provided timely funding of $155,000 to help my lab at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), leverage a $2 million retinal-gene discovery project.

What is very rewarding for me is that FFB’s support helped us find the retinal-disease gene mutation in 33 families, who were otherwise left without a clear diagnosis. Now these families are better able to understand their prognosis and which clinical trials and future therapies may be most relevant to them.

By Radha Ayyagari on May 8, 2017