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Nystagmus Research Funding

Dr. Hertle has touched many of our lives and the lives of our loved ones, and many of us view him as the best hope in developing successful treatments of and eventually a cure for Nystagmus. Dr. Hertle has also been a great friend of ANN over the years, having volunteered a considerable amount of his time to ANN through personal appearances at our bi-annual conferences and making himself available whenever requested to assist our organization and its members. Dr. Hertle notes that Government funding for biomedical research, including Dr. Hertle’s research in Nystagmus, has almost disappeared. As a result, The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and The Eye and Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh have developed an ambitious program to set up a foundation that will help long-lasting research to help children with Nystagmus and related disorders. The following links will take you to a letter from Dr. Hertle and a flyer for the Right to See Foundation.

If anyone knows of an individual or organization that might be able to support this effort, please pass along this link or provide them with copies of the documents referenced above.

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