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The research grant terms and conditions are available for download below.

The role of the Research Committee is to: 

Patients have a very important part to play in research. The Macular Society is able to support researchers by finding suitable and willing patients who can offer researchers the benefit of their experience of living with macular disease.

Patients have a very important part to play in research. Over a million people take part in studies and trials in the UK each year. Without them, we would not have the treatments we have today, and new and improved treatments would not be possible.

The latest developments in the search for better treatments and a cure for macular disease.

The truth behind the headlines on sight loss, “cures” for blindness and research breakthroughs.

This is something we frequently get asked following reports that claim there is a link between taking aspirin and the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Often these claims come from research where patients are studied and followed up for many years. Researchers monitor patients’ lifestyle and whether these patients later develop AMD. From this, they try to make connections between lifestyle or medications and the risk of developing AMD.

Mathematics can be used to model or represent how the real world works. Mathematicians have already worked to create virtual hearts and lungs. A group of mathematicians, clinicians, engineers and biologists are now coming together to start looking at creating a model for the eye. They hope this model could describe the functioning of the eye and help us understand what goes wrong in disease.

Patients with diabetes-related sight loss are being left anxious and uncertain about their future as they are given very little information about their condition, or the support available. 

In 2020, the Macular Society surveyed its members and supporters with wet AMD to understand their views of living with wet AMD and receiving treatment for their condition.