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…

February 28 is Rare Disease Day. In recognition of the day, Fighting Blindness Canada is raising awareness to drive change for those with rare diseases, including an inherited retinal disease (IRD). New…

January is Glaucoma Month, and Fighting Blindness Canada connected with Dr. Delan Jinapriya, a glaucoma specialist and the medical director of the Galen Eye Institute, Queen’s University, and asked him to answer…

From the passage of Canada’s National Strategy for Eye Care Act, to the world’s first eye transplant, to the approval of an FBC-funded clinical trial for a first-of-its-kind stem cell treatment, there’s…

Legislation lays planning groundwork for Canadians to access essential eye health services Ottawa, ON — [November 7, 2024] — The recent passage of Bill C-284, the National Strategy for Eye Care Act…

Fighting Blindness Canada is excited to announce our 2024 Research Grant competition awardees. These grants, worth $784,105, provide crucial seed funding for Canadian vision researchers to move forward projects and generate data…