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Macular Society receives donation from the Freemasons

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National sight loss charity the Macular Society has received a £100,000 donation from the Freemasons to help fund its research into a cure for AMD

National sight loss charity the Macular Society has received a £100,000 donation from the Freemasons to help fund its research into a cure for AMD.

The grant, which has been given to Professor Majlinda Lako and her team at the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Newcastle University, will be used to create a human disease model of AMD.

The model would ‘accelerate progress towards understanding how AMD develops and test the effectiveness of new treatments’, the charity said.

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