December 10, 2021. Gordon Gund, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Foundation, joins host Ben Shaberman to share reflections on 50 years of fighting blindness and what has made the Foundation successful in driving its mission to eradicate the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.

November 19. 2021. Michael Kalberer talks with Ben Shaberman about his perspective on living with cerebral palsy and Leber congenital amaurosis as well as his vision improvements after receiving an emerging CRISPR/Cas9 treatment in Editas' BRILLIANCE clinical trial. Michael can be reached at [email protected]. His website is at michaeljkalbererpresents.com.

November 5, 2021. Ben Shaberman talks with Dave Knop, PhD, vice president of process development at AGTC, about how emerging gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases are manufactured for use in human studies.

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Susvimo, Genentech’s port delivery system (PDS) with ranibizumab, for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The PDS, a refillable capsule the size of a rice grain, provides continual release of ranibizumab, a protein that blocks the growth of vision-robbing, leaky blood vessels which are the hallmark of wet AMD. The PDS is implanted at the surface of the eye during a one-time, outpatient, surgical procedure. The PDS may be refilled as infrequently as twice a year. Susvimo will be available to patients in the coming months.

October 22, 2021. Michael Young, PhD, from Harvard Medical School, joins host Ben Shaberman to talk about the latest in stem cell research for retinal diseases.

October 8, 2021. Silvia Sorensen, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Rochester in the Center for Community Health and Prevention, talks with host Ben Shaberman about mental health issues and management for people with low vision.

September 24, 2021. Dr. Naveed Shams, chief scientific officer at ProQR, discusses RNA therapies and ProQR's three clinical trials targeting: Leber congenital amaurosis (a CEP290 mutation), USH2A exon 13, and retinitis pigmentosa (RHO-P23H).

September 10, 2021. Stephen Daiger, PhD, Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Diagnosis of Inherited Eye Diseases at UT Houston, discusses the challenges and advancements in identifying the genetic mutations that cause retinal degenerative diseases.

August 27, 2021. Host Ben Shaberman provides an overview of the Foundation's no-cost genetic testing program for people in the U.S. with inherited retinal diseases.

August 13, 2021. Host Ben Shaberman talks with Bonnie Swenor, MPH, PhD, Director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center, about her journey from the sudden, unexpected onset of vision loss to becoming a researcher and advocate for people with all disabilities.