October 31, 2025. Dr. Victoria Claire has commissioned more than 200 sculptures, received an honorary doctorate, and is pursuing a PhD. She talks with host Ben Shaberman about her journey with retinitis pigmentosa, and how blindness has provided her with new and profound insights into herself and perceiving the world. Visitors to her current exhibition, "The Sense of Sculpture" (Oct. 18 - Nov. 1) at The Art House in Wakefield, England, are interacting with her sculptures tactilely in complete darkness.
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October 31, 2025. Dr. Victoria Claire has commissioned more than 200 sculptures, received an honorary doctorate, and is pursuing a PhD. She talks with host Ben Shaberman about her journey with retinitis pigmentosa, and how blindness has provided her with new and profound insights into herself and perceiving the world. Visitors to her current exhibition, "The Sense of Sculpture" (Oct. 18 - Nov. 1) at The Art House in Wakefield, England, are interacting with her sculptures tactilely in complete darkness.
Eye on the Cure Podcast | Episode 86: Lenore von Krusenstiern, MD, PhD
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Eye on the Cure Podcast | Episode 86: Lenore von Krusenstiern, MD, PhD
May 23, 2025. Lenore von Krusenstiern, MD, PhD, at BlueRock Therapeutics talks to host Ben Shaberman about the company's clinical trial for a photoreceptor replacement therapy for people with inherited retinal conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa and cone-rod dystrophy. The approach, which uses induced pluripotent stem cells to develop photoreceptor precursors, comes out of the lab of stem cell pioneer David Gamm, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Foundation Fighting Blindness
October 31, 2025. Dr. Victoria Claire has commissioned more than 200 sculptures, received an honorary doctorate, and is pursuing a PhD. She talks with host Ben Shaberman about her journey with retinitis pigmentosa, and how blindness has provided her with new and profound insights into herself and perceiving the world. Visitors to her current exhibition, "The Sense of Sculpture" (Oct. 18 - Nov. 1) at The Art House in Wakefield, England, are interacting with her sculptures tactilely in complete darkness.
