The National Eye Institute (NEI) seeks research co-development partners and/or licensees for gene therapy for CRX retinopathies such as Leber congenital amaurosis, retinitis pigmentosa, and cone-rod dystrophy.
Scientists at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a technology for a 3D bioprinting process. Through the process, an artificial blood retinal barrier (BRB) is constructed that may be used as a graft to potentially replace BRB tissues that are lost or damaged in many ocular disorders. The printed tissue structures might be therapeutically useful for grafts or as model systems to test function and physiological responses to drugs or other variables introduced into the system.