The charity's current research programme of over £5 million is supporting projects at major centres of excellence.
Birdshot Patient Day
The Birdshot Uveitis Society is hosting a Patient Day in London on Saturday 11th September 2010. The event will offer patients the chance to meet leading specialists and find out about new research. Download a flyer here.
New clinical training fellowship
Fight for Sight joins forces with MRC to offer Clinical Research Training Fellowship
Publications
Fight for Sight and RNID helped to produce a special issue of Drug Discovery Today on age-related sensory impairment. To request a copy contact grants@fightforsight.org.uk.
An important new research paper written by Fight for Sight-funded researcher Professor Alison Hardcastle and colleagues has been published in the Journal of Human Molecular Genetics.
Current research funding opportunities
The application process for PhD studentships, Project grants, Clinical Fellowships and Early Career Investigator awards for 2011 is now open.
The closing date for PhD studentship abstract applications is Monday 6 September 2010 and abstract applications for Project grants, Clinical Fellowships and Early Career Investigator Awards is on Monday 15 November 2010.
A life in eye research
Read about one researcher's life in eye research.
Choroideremia
Fight for Sight is funding research at Imperial College London into potential treatments for choroideremia, an inherited eye condition that can cause progressive sight loss.