# Sight charities partner to invest nearly £160k in research projects

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/11/01/sight-charities-partner-invest-nearly-160k-research-projects/
- Published: 2013-11-01T09:56:05+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Fight for Sight has joined with nine other charities to invest nearly £160,000 in
11 new eye research projects.

Its partner charities are Birdshot Uveitis Society, British Thyroid Foundation, 
Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, International Glaucoma Association, Nystagmus Network,
Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis UK, RP Fighting Blindness, Thyroid
Eye Disease and Uveitis Information Group Scotland.

The research will take place at universities and hospitals across the UK, including
Moorfields Eye Hospital, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Birmingham,
Southend University Hospital, Cardiff University, University of Manchester and University
of Liverpool.

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It will investigate giant cell arteritis, thyroid eye disease, nystagmus, birdshot
chorioretinopathy, retinoblastoma, uveitis, glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa.

## £200,000 also awarded

[Fight for Sight](http://www.fightforsight.org.uk) has also awarded over £200,000
to 13 other projects addressing various eye diseases and conditions.

Dr Dolores Conroy, Director of Research at Fight for Sight, said: “Last year we 
joined up with six other charities to combine expertise and identify novel research
projects bringing hope to the millions of people currently living with visual impairment.

“This year we’ve expanded and worked with nine different charities and together 
we have funded 11 new projects. In addition Fight for Sight has funded 13 new research
projects, so we are delighted to be involved with key eye research across the country.”

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