Eye research charity Fight for Sight has awarded just under £200,000 worth of grants to nine organisations to help fund thirteen separate research projects relating to serious eye conditions.
Totalling over £180,000, the charity has announced that it has teamed up with Alzheimer’s Research UK on two separate projects. The first would look into dementia and visual impairment, funding Pearse Keane from UCL’s Institute of Ophthalmology. The second would support a project led by Dr J. Arjuna Ratnayaka from the University of Southampton, studying dementia and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Other notable projects include a collaboration with the International Glaucoma Association to finance Ulster University’s Professor Colin Willoughby, who would look to identify why glaucoma differs between different ethnic groups.
Finally, Dr Adam Dubis from Moorfields Eye Hospital would benefit from a collaboration between Fight for Sight and the National Eye Research Centre in his work to discover better treatments for retinal vascular disease.