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Ophthalmology Content for 嘿嘿视频en$3.5 Million Grant to Study Disease Causing Vision Loss in Children
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<p>Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is a rare genetic disease that causes progressive and irreversible vision loss in both eyes starting in the first decade of life. There is currently no treatment for ADOA, which affects approximately 3 people per 100,000 worldwide.</p>
<p>嘿嘿视频 researchers will use a new 3.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a nonhuman primate model of ADOA to speed the development and testing of treatments for humans.</p>February 23, 2023 - 11:16amAndy Fell/blog/35-million-grant-study-disease-causing-vision-loss-children