Dr. Gustavo Aguirre discusses gene therapy for canine blindness on the National Geographic Channel.

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Inherited Eye Diseases Clinic
Dr. Aguirre’s veterinary ophthalmological and gene-therapy research focuses on inherited diseases of the eye, especially degeneration of the retina in dogs, humans, and other mammals. In 2001, he, his colleagues and researchers at Penn were the first to restore vision in blind dogs using gene therapy.