For many patients we're catching it to late or their disease is too aggressive and people really losing functional vision from glaucoma, whether it's their peripheral vision or even
eventually their central vision, it's very motivating to be able to take note of the fact that we've got patients in these tough situations losing vision to glaucoma and then to be able to go back to the lab and to hook up with great collaborators and really try to attack the problem scientifically.
These retinal cells are the type that are killed off in macular degeneration,
eventually leading to the death of photoreceptors, and the gradual loss of
central vision.