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Shire and Foundation Fighting Blindness ink rare eye disease accord

4 May 2015

Ireland-headquartered Shire (LSE: SHP) and the USA’s Foundation Fighting Blindness today announced a new agreement focused on furthering research for a novel treatment for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP), a rare genetic disease that usually first occurs in late childhood or adolescence and is followed by the progressive loss of peripheral vision. There are no currently approved treatment options for adRP.

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