At Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC), our goal is to drive the development and availability of treatments and cures for blinding eye diseases. Curing blindness is a gargantuan mission, but we know it’s…

I recently participated in a tremendously inspiring meeting, hosted by ProQR, which is a company that is creating new treatments for people living with rare diseases, including blinding eye diseases. ProQR specializes…

Each year, Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) holds several Vision Quest educational events across the country. Our first Vision Quest of 2018 took place on April 28 in London, Ontario, where we were…

Stem cell treatments have been advertised as miracle cures for many illnesses, including vision loss—but not all advertised “treatments” work, and some have even proven dangerous. Last year, three patients with age-related…

Watch our Facebook Live session from Friday, March 23, where we were joined online by special guest Dr. Jill Dolgin from the gene therapy company AGTC. In this video, Dr. Mary Sunderland…

Stem cells are making headlines again! This is good news, especially for those living with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common blinding eye disease in people over the age of 50….