Tagged: Blindness
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New €4m WIT facility to pioneer nutrition and vision research News
23.03.2012 Waterford Institute of Technology’s new €4m Vision Research Centre will officially open this afternoon when it is launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD. The facility is aiming to...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Graduate, Government, Funding, Education, Economy -
Ireland’s Genable Technologies secures €5m in financing News
11.11.2011 Trinity College Dublin-based Genable Technologies has secured €5m in financing to help progress its gene therapy technology to pioneer new therapies for the cure for retinitis...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Funding, Financial, Development, Bio Tech -
Armed with a ‘Wiimote’, Irish students are fighting blindness News
02.07.2009 There are 37 million blind people worldwide. Ten million of these are in Africa alone and suffer from cataract blindness.Categories: R&DTags: Nintendo Wii, Blindness, -
An all-island tech effort to fight blindness News
22.06.2009 Medical scientists from Queen’s University Belfast and researchers at Waterford Institute of Technology have made a potential new breakthrough in the treatment of an incurable...Categories: R&D