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.
Grâce aux résultats de ces projets vitaux, nous disposerons de recherches quantifiables à présenter aux instituts médicaux qui comprendront les graves conséquences des flotteurs oculaires - ce qui nous aidera à mettre au point plus rapidement un remède sûr et efficace.
Notre objectif est de trouver le plus rapidement possible un remède sûr et efficace pour les yeux flottants.
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
Notre objectif à court terme est de guérir cette maladie, et notre objectif à long terme est de la prévenir.
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.
L'une de nos stratégies clés pour faire reconnaître cette maladie par les gouvernements, les instituts médicaux et les chercheurs est de montrer la prévalence généralisée des yeux flottants.
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.
Ce n'est qu'avec le financement nécessaire que nous pourrons mener à bien ces projets essentiels et obtenir des données en temps réel qui montrent à quel point les yeux flottants peuvent être débilitants.
Tous les dons seront alloués à la proposition de tri-projet en conséquence, ce qui maximisera notre capacité à les mener à bien le plus rapidement possible - ce qui signifie que nous serons plus près de trouver un remède.
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Chercheur principal, Doheny Eye Institute/UCLA ; professeur d'ophtalmologie clinique, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA ; directeur fondateur, VMR Institute for Vitreous Macula Retina
Considéré comme une autorité de premier plan sur le vitré, le Dr Sebag est l'auteur de 233 publications universitaires, en date d'octobre 2020.
Membre de l'American College of Surgeons et du Royal College of Ophthalmologists (Royaume-Uni), le Dr Sebag a donné des conférences nommées dans le monde entier, la plus récente étant la conférence inaugurale Robert Machemer à la Société européenne d'ophtalmologie (2019). En 2006, le Dr Sebag a été intronisé membre de la Société américaine d'ophtalmologie, dont il présidera le comité de programme en 2016. En 2010, il a été sélectionné comme membre de l'ARVO, la première organisation mondiale de recherche sur les yeux, et en 2018, l'American Academy of Ophthalmology lui a décerné le Senior Career Achievement Award.
Au cours de la dernière décennie, le Dr Sebag a défendu la cause des personnes souffrant de flotteurs vitrés suffisamment graves pour mériter le diagnostic de myodésopsie dégradant la vision, une affection qui peut être soignée aujourd'hui par vitrectomie, mais demain par des approches moins invasives et même par la prévention, le but ultime de la médecine moderne.
En soutenant le projet VDM, on accélérera la réalisation de demain.
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