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"We're extremely excited about this grant and by the confidence peer review and the NEI has placed in our project," said the initiative's principal investigator Martin Friedlander, a professor at Scripps Research and retina specialist at Scripps Clinic. "Our goal in the next five years is to develop this new approach to treating retinal diseases to the point it can be tested in the clinic. The project addresses a large unmet medical need-developing new treatments for patients who are losing their sight due to neovascular and retinal degenerative diseases."