Feb 13, 2025
Dr. Matthew Benson: Developing Therapies
Dr. Matthew Benson, University of Alberta, is one of the recipients of the 2024 Fighting Blindness Canada Research Grant.
The goal of his project—Exploring the Role of Peroxisomes in Lipid Homeostasis in the Retinal Pigment Epitheliums—is to understand how defects in peroxisomes lead to retinal degeneration. Peroxisomes are small structures that help cells break down fats and neutralize harmful substances.
Dr. Benson hopes to test a potential therapy that could be useful for certain inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) and age-related macular degeneration.
In this video, he explains how important the grant is to his goals of developing therapies to prevent vision loss.
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