Image is of a digital globe.
Oct 6, 2022

It’s made an appearance during hockey, basketball, and baseball games, popped up during an episode of your favourite reality show and has even snuck in between segments of the nightly news. Fighting…

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Image is of Andre and Nathan
Oct 3, 2022

Nathan and Andre needed a game-changing gene-specific therapy. But the costs were astronomical and the parents were at a loss. Here’s how I witnessed their story go from tragic to triumphant. Twins…

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Image is of a man walking using a white cane.
Sep 30, 2022

Nick D’Ambrosio is a 51-year-old Italian Canadian from Montréal, Québec living with sight loss due to an inherited retinal disease called retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Following an early diagnosis, Nick found it difficult…

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Image is of white pills, reminiscent of the NAC Attack pills
Sep 29, 2022

Starting in 2023, a new clinical trial called NAC Attack will be launched to test an oral medication, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), as a potential therapy for patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). NAC Attack…

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Image is of a lab tech looking through a microscope.
Sep 29, 2022

Dr. Sachdev Sidhu (University of Toronto) is a biomedical engineer with extensive experience in drug development. Dr. Sidhu established the Toronto Recombinant Antibody Centre (TRAC) which houses a state-of-the-art platform to generate…

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Image is of a researcher exploring liquids using medical viles.
Sep 26, 2022

Teamwork really does make the dream work! We are excited to share news of a Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) funded discovery recently published in the journal Science Advances achieved through a collaboration…

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