F. Coppieters receives award from the FFB (US)

Frauke Coppieters, Kris Gevaert and Bart Leroy received the PRPH2 and associated retinal diseases (PARD) award  from the Foundation Fighting Blindness (US) for their research project entitled “Elucidating Disease Heterogeneity and a Novel Therapeutic Approach for PRPH2-related Inherited Retinal Disease”. The team will investigate why symptoms vary widely among people with PRPH2-related eye diseases, and will test a new treatment approach using antisense oligonucleotides.

Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB)