Family Stories

ProQR Therapeutics completed an in-depth strategic review to prioritize its objectives toward advancing RNA therapies, following news that its Illuminate Phase 2/3 clinical trial of sepofarsen in [...]

Working with preclinical data from multiple Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) studies at the same time, Opus Genetics hopes to advance research into gene therapy for several forms of LCA at a [...]

Children living with visual impairment become more independent and empowered when parents set high expectations for their kids and challenge them every day. Just ask Beth Borysewicz. In her role [...]

After crazy months of looking for answers to questions about her infant’s vision, Melissa Matias learned her baby girl, Dylan, had a form of Leber congenital amaurosis known as LCA6 caused […]

ProQR Therapeutics’ clinical trials of sepofarsen to treat a form of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) caused by a mutation in the CEP290 gene did not meet its primary endpoint of […]

Rare Disease Day 2022 kicked off today as people gathered across the country, including us here at Hope in Focus, to raise awareness and generate research for treatments and cures […]

A proposed Congressional Act designed to help researchers launch clinical trials for emerging treatments gives hope for getting more treatments across the finish line for people living with a [...]

ProQR Therapeutics’ Founder and Chief Executive Officer shared exciting news of the deep pipeline of RNA therapies in development to treat Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and other [...]

One of Britain’s top Ophthalmologist’s delivered promising research news on several forms of Leber congenital amaurosis, including LCA13 (RDH12), LCA1 (GUCY2D), LCA2 (RPE65), and LCA4 (AIPL1). [...]

John Mills says he would crawl over broken glass if it led to a cure for his daughter’s visual impairment caused by one of the rarest of rare inherited retinal […]