Fight For Sight (U.K.)
Fight for Sight is a UK charity dedicated to funding research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease.
Since 1965 the charity has been funding medical research into a wide range of eye conditions, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataract, corneal eye disease, trachoma, diabetic retinopathy as well as a wide range of inherited eye diseases and the causes of childhood blindness .
The charity funds researchers based at universities and hospitals throughout the UK and those undertaking research in the UK and overseas.
Fight for Sight in the UK is unaffiliated with the organization also named Fight for Sight (U.S.) in the United States.
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