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ProgStar Study Sponsors

The ProgStar study was initiated thanks to sponsorship by the Foundation Fighting Blindness, an organization dedicated to fund research that may lead to prevention, treatments, and cures for retinal degenerative diseases including STGD.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness sponsored the main ProgStar study in STGD1 patients, which ran from 2012-2015; the SMART study  has been conducted as an ancillary study,  with a subset of the prospective study patients during their regular ProgSTAR study visits.

The additional ProgStar4 study was sponsored by Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with the Shulsky Foundation.

Read more about the SMART study and the ProgStar4 study in the corresponding sections of this website.

To understand why there is no ‘ProgStar2’ and no ‘ProgStar3’ study, please read the section ‘About all ProgStar studies‘.

The photo above (it is also the teaser image for this section on the homepage) shows members of the international ProgStar study group in 2012. More about them is available in section ‘Research Group‘.