
Our Research in Vision Loss
Vision loss caused by diseases of the eye affects over 160 million people globally* and can have a devastating long-term impact on quality of life. Many of these diseases have few, or no, effective treatment options, with many patients urgently seeking new alternatives.
*Reference:
Data from the WHO Blindness and Visual Impairment fact sheet. Version 8 Oct 2020.
Data from the Foundation Fighting Blindness 2019 Annual Report.
Our long-term goal is to identify, develop and deliver next generation treatments that restore sight for patients with eye diseases and may help them to get back to their daily lives.
We are combining innovative cell therapy (replacing cells that are not working properly with healthy cells) and gene therapy (using genes to repair cell function) with a deep understanding of the biology of eye diseases to develop treatments where none exist today.
We hope that delivering cell and gene treatments for the eye will be the start of ongoing innovation. This could help patients across many other disease areas that do not have good treatment options now.
Explore how cell and gene treatments are being studied to treat other rare conditions