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The latest funding round now brings MDFA’s commitment to macular disease research to $5.8 million across 35 projects since 2011.

Barriers to effective eye care

This MDFA-funded study surveyed both patients and practitioners about the enablers and barriers to effective eye care.

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Your donations make MDFA the largest non-government source of macular disease research funding in Australia. Donate to our tax appeal to help support life-changing research.

From the lab to the clinic: A/Prof Fred Chen

MDFA Research Grant recipient A/Prof Fred Chen is working to find treatments and establish clinical pathways for patients with Stargardt disease.

In the lab with A/Prof Wilson Heriot

Is there a link between anti-malarial medication and macular degeneration?

Prof Robyn Guymer conducting an eye exam

Prof Robyn Guymer: Describing AMD

With funding from MDFA’s Research Grants Program, Prof Robyn Guymer developed a new suite of state-of-the-art techniques to better describe early AMD.

Prof Damien Harkin in the lab

With an MDFA Research Grant, Professor Damien Harkin undertook a novel research project using a protein extracted from silk as a form of scaffold on which to grow new retinal tissue,

Fight Retinal Blindness! Registry

How Professor Mark Gillies’ ever-expanding digital database helps clinicians across the globe.

The Best is yet to come

Case study: A 14-year-old male was referred to CERA with a white-yellow macular lesion and suspicions of an inherited condition.

Wellbeing and AMD

MDFA funded researcher Ms Diana Tang is rolling out the Movement, Interaction and Nutrition for Greater Lifestyles in the Elderly – or MINGLE – program.

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From the lab to the clinic: A/Prof Fred Chen

In the lab with A/Prof Wilson Heriot

Prof Robyn Guymer: Describing AMD

Prof Damien Harkin in the lab

Fight Retinal Blindness! Registry

The Best is yet to come

Wellbeing and AMD

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