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Podcast: Foundation Fighting Blindness
Episode: Eye on the Cure Podcast | Episode 82: Dr. Aaron Nagiel
Description: March 7, 2025. Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD, a retina surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, talks to host Ben Shaberman about how gene therapy is administered to the retina, what the surgery and recovery is like for patients, and the vision improvements for young patients receiving LUXTURNA, the first FDA-approved gene therapy for the eye or an inherited condition. Dr. Nagiel also discusses other retinal gene therapies in clinical development.