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Living with vision loss, Tami Morehouse and Jack McCormick learned the challenging complexities of advocating for themselves so well, that they both now earn a living helping the general [...]

A new Foundation Fighting Blindness initiative just getting underway is a Natural History study of Usher Syndrome Type 1F (USH1F) caused by a mutation in the PCDH15 gene. The objective of the [...]

Join the My Retina Tracker® registry and you’ll be contributing to science by driving research to help improve your quality of life and to find treatments and cures for Leber congenital amaurosis [...]

Joseph F. Smith has been legally blind since birth. He lost what little sight he had in his mid-30s, when he learned he had Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). Thirty years later, genetic testing [...]

Early research into a form of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) caused by mutations in the CRB1 gene – including the discovery of a new version of a protein expressed by the gene – shows [...]

Amid the intricacies of researching treatments and cures for rare diseases, such as Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and other inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), the patient remains the major [...]

You or your loved one just received a clinical diagnosis of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a rare inherited retinal disorder caused by a mutated gene. The disease causes severe vision loss at [...]

Promising gene therapy research – characterized as having a good potential to restore vision – is underway to help visual impairment caused by a form of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) [...]

Researchers and regulators did not miss a single step in the fast-tracked federal process of developing successful COVID-19 vaccines. And the same goes for fast-tracking gene therapies for rare [...]

Had he received a more definitive rare disease diagnosis in 2003, Alan Gunzburg said he might not have lost so much vision and still might be able to drive. In 2016 – 13 years after his initial [...]