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Using a new approach to target genetic mutations, eye researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Iowa are developing and testing a new therapy for restoring vision in children and adults with severe visual impairment or blindness due to certain kinds of retinal disorders.
Bikash Pattnaik
“For pediatric populations, this new therapy will be tested to treat inherited retinal disorders like Leber congenital amaurosis, Best disease, or more frequent congenital stationary night blindness,” says Bikash Pattnaik, UW–Madison professor of pediatrics and ophthalmology and visual sciences at the McPherson Eye Research Institute and the School of Medicine and Public Health.