About Us

The National Ophthalmic Disease Genotyping and Phenotyping Network (eyeGENE®) is a genomic medicine initiative created by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in partnership with clinics and laboratories across the vision research community. The core mission of eyeGENE® is to facilitate research into the causes and mechanisms of rare inherited eye diseases and accelerate pathways to treatments.

Research

The eyeGENE® Research Resource (RRID:SCR_004523) is open for approved research studies. Application details here Researchers and clinicians are actively developing gene-based therapies to treat ophthalmic genetic diseases that were once considered untreatable.

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