Foundation Fighting Blindness - Twin Cities VisionWalk & Chapter

Foundation Fighting Blindness - Twin Cities VisionWalk & Chapter The official page of the Minnesota Chapter of the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

The Twin Cities VisionWalk is one of more than 40 walks organized across the country raising money for retinal disease research. The Northern Lights Chapter of the Foundation Fighting Blindness provides educational opportunities to the community on research, technology and other subjects of interest. Since its founding in 1971, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has been dedicated to funding innovative research to find preventions, treatments, and cures for inherited retinal degenerative diseases that lead to blindness and affect more than 10 million people in the United States. FFB currently funds over 134 research studies, 71 prominent research institutions and eye hospitals worldwide, including 15 dedicated research centers. In order to achieve our mission, we fund pioneering research in a comprehensive program that includes: cell biology, drug delivery, clinical & pre-clinical study, genetics, gene therapy, retinal cell transplantation, retinal implants and pharmaceutical and nutritional therapies.

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977 Lakeview Pkwy, Ste 140
Vernon Hills, IL
60061

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We Are Ending Blindness The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration, Usher syndrome and the entire spectrum of retinal diseases. A cure is in sight and you can help us reach it. Since its founding in 1971, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has been dedicated to funding innovative research to find preventions, treatments, and cures for inherited retinal degenerative diseases that lead to blindness and affect more than 10 million people in the United States. FFB currently funds over 134 research studies, 71 prominent research institutions and eye hospitals worldwide, including 15 dedicated research centers. In order to achieve our mission, we fund pioneering research in a comprehensive program that includes: cell biology, drug delivery, clinical & pre-clinical study, genetics, gene therapy, retinal cell transplantation, retinal implants and pharmaceutical and nutritional therapies.

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