/ Blindness Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /blog/35-million-grant-study-disease-causing-vision-loss-children <p>Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is&nbsp;a rare genetic disease that causes progressive and irreversible vision loss in both eyes starting in the first decade of life. There is currently no treatment for ADOA, which affects approximately 3 people per 100,000 worldwide.</p> <p>51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis researchers will use a new 3.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a nonhuman primate model of ADOA to speed the development and testing of treatments for humans.</p> February 23, 2023 - 11:16am Andy Fell /blog/35-million-grant-study-disease-causing-vision-loss-children