Up to one in 1,490 inhabitants of the Czech Republic suffers from one of the many types of hereditary retinal diseases. It is a group of rare diseases that can be passed from parents to children. They are manifested, for example, by a decrease in visual acuity, a color vision disorder, photophobia, impaired vision in the dark or a limitation of the field of vision. Hereditary retinal diseases are one of the most common causes of vision loss in children and young adults in developed countries. The Center for Clinical Eye Genetics at the Eye Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General University Hospital in Prague is the only one in the country that specializes in hereditary eye diseases, including diagnostics at the DNA level. In cooperation with the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Prague, the Ophthalmology Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of the UK and VFN became the first and only certified workplace in the Czech Republic where they already use the most modern gene therapy for the treatment of hereditary retinal disease.

Find out more at press release and you can watch the video from the first application here: https://youtu.be/nz0fJ4CSnP4.