i said i am in the right spot. he talked to the leading researchers working on optic nerve repair. have you done any studies with severed optic nerves? he peppered them with questions like he was cross-examining witnessing. mike gilmore, the president, offered sutton a glimmer of hope. we will be able to regenerate an optic nerve. it s not so much a question of can we but when can we. and tfrit was a good news/ba news sort of day. i do not want to mislead you or provide false hopes. yes, there might be a cure, but perhaps not for five or ten years or more, quite possibly too late for john sutton. how are you doing? okay. how soon depends on how much funding we can get, how many scientists we can put behind the problem to solve it. so sutton told the schepens doctors he would somehow help make it happen.