Department of Ophthalmology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden n the last few years there have been I considerable advances in the field of neural transplantation for the management of neuro-degenerative disorders (Dunnett, 1991; Lindvall, 1991, 1995). Retinal transplantation has also evolved far enough to give hopes that it may be used to deal with degenerative retinal diseases. Both retinal pigment epithelium and neural retina cell transplants are being developed (for review see Sharma et al. 1995a) for clinical use. The purpose of this review is to present for clinicians the present status of retinal cell transplant research.