Charity awards research grants

Fight for Sight has named the recipients of three research awards each worth £15,000 to fund research into eye disease.

Professor David Bates from the University of Bristol received the Dr Hans and Mrs Gertrude Hirsch Award which will support his research into ways of preventing abnormal blood vessel growth in the eye. It is hoped the research could lead to new treatments for age-related AMD and diabetic retinopathy.

Under the Fight for Sight small grant awards scheme, Dr Peter Charbel Issa from the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford was awarded £15,000 for his work on developing retinal gene-therapy for patients suffering from AMD and other retinal diseases.