Saving Sight Through Novel BioTech Innovations for Inherited Retinal Disease

遗传性视网膜疾病（IRD）是工作年龄成人失明的主要原因。我的工作重点是更多地了解IRD，包括基因与眼睛退行性变化之间的相关性。我正在开发新的结果测量方法来预测谁可能更快地失去视力，并用于临床试验。然后，我将在两个新的IRD治疗临床试验中使用这些知识-基因疗法和植入眼睛的电子设备。

Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are the leading cause of blindness in working-aged adults. My work focuses on learning more about IRDs, including the correlation between genes and the degenerative changes in the eye. I am developing new outcome measures to predict who might lose vision faster, and to use in clinical trials. I will then use this knowledge in two clinical trials for new IRD treatments - a gene therapy and an electronic device that is implanted into the eye.