Fight for Sight team take on the Adidas Women's Challenge

A team of 15 Fight for Sight runners and walkers, led by Emma Salisbury, Dot Grindley and Amelia Salisbury, joined 15,000 women in the 2010 Adidas Women’s 5K Challenge on Sunday 5 September.

The team, made up of friends and supporters of the Tommy Salisbury Choroideremia Committee, joined the annual Hyde Park road race to raise money to support Fight for Sight's research into new treatments for choroideremia.

Choroideremia is a rare eye condition that causes progressive sight loss. The Tommy Salisbury Choroideremia Committee has been raising funds to support choroideremia research since 2005. They hope to support the development of new treatments for 10-year-old Tommy Salisbury and others affected by the condition.

Annu Mayor, Director of Fundraising at Fight for Sight, said: "The Salisbury family and their friends devote an incredible amount of time and energy to fundraising for research into choroideremia. We are hugely grateful for their support.”

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Fight for Sight is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to funding world-class research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease.

Since 1965, the charity has funded research at leading universities and hospitals throughout the UK. The charity’s major achievements in this time include:
• saving the sight of thousands of premature babies through understanding and controlling levels of oxygen delivery;
• restoring sight by establishing the UK Corneal Transplant Service enabling over 48,000 corneal transplants to take place;
• revolutionising the treatment for children with amblyopia (lazy eye);
• bringing hope to children with inherited eye disease by helping to fund the team responsible for the world’s first gene therapy clinical trial; and
• providing £1million for the research unit at the dedicated children’s eye centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital.