A Foundation Fighting Blindness Award of $ 2,5 million
The Foundation Fighting Blindness (USA) has awarded a Program Project Award of $ 2,5 million to Ronald Roepman, theme Renal disorders, and collaborators from Tübingen, Mainz, and London.
In the next five years, they will deploy systems pharmacology to target disrupted proteostasis in retinal ciliopathies, inherited retinal dystrophies caused by malfunctioning sensory cilia.
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