A safe and effective cure for eye floaters is our goal – as soon as possible.
While scientific research is the solution, it’s essential that we lay the foundation to have this disease recognized as a serious issue by the medical community – meaning a cure can be developed faster.
We have outlined our Tri-Project Proposal below with details on how we can greatly accelerate scientific research and help us pressure the pharmaceutical industry to cure eye floaters.
The VDM Project is exploring ways to receive governmental grants, but this won’t be possible without eye floaters being recognized as a serious problem first. We can only complete the program with funding, and we need your help.
We are aiming to raise $10,000 per month to achieve our goals.
Con los resultados de estos proyectos vitales, dispondremos de una investigación cuantificable para presentarla a los institutos médicos, que comprenderán el grave impacto de las moscas volantes, lo que nos ayudará a desarrollar antes una cura segura y eficaz.
Nuestro objetivo es encontrar una cura segura y eficaz para las moscas volantes, lo antes posible.
While scientific research is the solution, it’s also essential that we have this disease recognized as a serious issue by the medical community and society at large. This way, a cure can be developed faster.
We have outlined with the VMR Research Foundation and Dr. J. Sebag a Tri-Project Proposal below with details on how we can greatly accelerate scientific research and help put pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to cure eye floaters.
The VDM Project is exploring ways to receive government grants, but this won’t be possible without eye floaters being recognized as a serious problem first. We can only complete the program with funding, and we need your help.
We are a team of eye floater sufferers from around the world, united to find a safe and effective cure for this disease. We support the VMR Research Foundation and work with other international institutes. The VDM Project is committed to scientific research that will result in clear vision – but we need your help. Find out more information at: www.vdmresearch.org
Nuestro objetivo a corto plazo es curar esta enfermedad, y nuestro objetivo a largo plazo es prevenirla.
To do this, our researchers need to gain a better knowledge of eye floaters at a molecular level. For a cure to be found, a better understanding of eye floaters is essential. As a combined effort between the VMR Research Foundation and university laboratories in Belgium, Germany, Poland, Spain, and the United States , this project is fundamental to understanding how eye floaters develop, and how they can be treated safely today, as well as prevented tomorrow.
Near-sightedness (myopia) has a strong correlation with eye floaters, but the reason is currently unknown.
Project Two will assess the changes in the eyes of patients with eye floaters to better understand how and why this condition occurs. Due to myopia levels increasing dramatically worldwide (estimated to affect 5 billion people per year by 2050), this project is necessary to gain the attention of governments and medical institutes globally. Once we have sufficient data, funding toward a cure is much more likely, meaning a floater-free future for sufferers.
Una de nuestras estrategias clave para que esta enfermedad sea reconocida por los gobiernos, los institutos médicos y los investigadores es mostrar la amplia prevalencia de las moscas volantes.
Currently, a questionnaire frequently used by the U.S. National Eye Institute does not adequately show how eye floaters negatively impact the lives of sufferers. We aim to change this. A new questionnaire created by the VMR Research Foundation specifically measures the negative impact of eye floaters with quantifiable metrics, so we can accurately measure the magnitude of this problem for individuals as well as populations. This vital questionnaire will greatly strengthen our ability to apply for medical research funding and is a key step to curing eye floaters. We also anticipate that this questionnaire will provide sufferers with feedback on the severity of their disease.
Sólo con la financiación necesaria podremos completar estos proyectos esenciales y obtener datos en tiempo real que muestren lo debilitantes que pueden ser las moscas volantes.
Todas las donaciones se asignarán a la Propuesta de Tri-Proyecto en consecuencia, maximizando nuestra capacidad para completarlas lo antes posible, lo que significa que estaremos más cerca de encontrar una cura.
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Científico principal de investigación, Doheny Eye Institute/UCLA; profesor de oftalmología clínica, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; director fundador, VMR Institute for Vitreous Macula Retina
Considerado una de las principales autoridades en materia de vítreo, el Dr. Sebag es autor de 233 publicaciones académicas, hasta octubre de 2020.
Miembro del American College of Surgeons y del Royal College of Ophthalmologists (Reino Unido), el Dr. Sebag ha pronunciado conferencias nombradas en todo el mundo, la más reciente la Inaugural Robert Machemer Lecture a la Sociedad Europea de Oftalmología (2019). En 2006, el Dr. Sebag fue admitido como miembro de la Sociedad Americana de Oftalmología, presidiendo el comité del programa en 2016. En 2010 fue seleccionado como miembro de la ARVO, la principal organización de investigación ocular del mundo.En 2018 la Academia Americana de Oftalmología concedió al Dr. Sebag el premio Senior Career Achievement Award.
En la última década, el Dr. Sebag ha defendido la causa de las personas que padecen moscas volantes vítreas lo suficientemente graves como para merecer el diagnóstico de miodesopsia degenerativa de la visión, una enfermedad que puede curarse hoy con vitrectomía, pero mañana con enfoques menos invasivos e incluso con la prevención, el objetivo último de la Medicina moderna.
Apoyar el Proyecto VDM hará que el día de mañana llegue antes.
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