orld's population
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will lose their vision within your
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lifetime that's about 4 billion people
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not easy to imagine is it
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now imagine that the largest category of
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these are children
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yet modeling predicts that this may be a
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reality by 2050 if no action is taken to
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find a treatment for the visual disorder
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myopia or better known as
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short-sightedness
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our research has shown that we can
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prevent myopia by being outdoors due to
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the high lye levels experienced when
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you're under the sun
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you might then wonder why are we getting
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kids outside
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unfortunately there are significant
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environmental and educational hurdles
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that have limited the ability to
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increase the time a child spends
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outdoors
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therefore we have taken a leaf out of
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nature's book and have developed a drug
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that mimics sunlight
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after extensive testing we are now ready
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to move this novel treatment into a
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patient population of young myopes but
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before we move to such a large-scale
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patient trial we first need to undertake
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a small pilot study to ensure kids
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tolerate having drops put in their eyes
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using the funds i am pitching for today
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i will run such a small pilot study
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moving us one step closer to finding a
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treatment to save the vision of millions
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of kids
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