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Foundation Fighting Blindness Launches New Study of Gyrate Atrophy

2024-02-14 11:58:15

Foundation Fighting Blindness is launching a natural history study for people with gyrate atrophy, a rare, vision-robbing inherited retinal disease. Mandeep Singh, the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Professor of Ophthalmology at Wilmer Eye Institute, is co-leading the study with David Valle, founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Inherited Disease Research.

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