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Best Disease

UW researchers devise approach to treat rare, incurable form of blindness

Posted on August 3, 2020

Waisman Center investigator David Gamm, MD, PhD, and Waisman affiliate Kris Saha, PhD, have published a proof-of-concept method to correct Best disease – an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes blindness, and that is …

Posted in 2020, News, Research, Stem Cells, VisionTagged Best Disease, Blindness, David Gamm, Kris Saha, Vision

UW Eye Researchers Publish Second Study of Stem Cells and Blinding Eye Disease

Posted on August 25, 2015

A team of eye researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have used a custom stem cell model of a rare but blinding eye disease to test whether a commonly used drug might offer hope for treatment.

Posted in 2015, News, Stem CellsTagged Best Disease, David Gamm, iPSC, Stem Cells, Vision

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