Thursday 25 May 2023

Abendvortrag“ (Public lecture), Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing 

18:30 Welcome
Prof. Dr. Bettina Rockenbach, ML, Vice-President, University of Cologne

18:35 Welcome
Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen, ML Prof. Dr. Thomas Krieg, ML

18:45 Das Geheimnis des Alterns: warum altern wir und was können wir dagegen tun? –"The secret of ageing“ and why we age and what can we do to counteract it
Prof. Dr. Jan Hoeijmakers, Rotterdam

Friday 26 May 2023

Scientific Lectures, University Eye Hospital, Lecture Hall (www.augenklinik.uk-koeln.de)

08:45 Welcome (Prof. Cursiefen/Prof. Krieg)

08:50 Welcome (Prof. Dr. G. Fink, Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne)

09:00 Vision, ageing and ophthalmology: unmet needs

09:00 Epidemiology of age-related blindness and severe vision impairment in Germany
Prof. Dr. Alexander Schuster, Mainz

09:30 Ageing well - A comprehensive approach
Prof. Dr. M. Cristina Polidori, Cologne

10.00 Do we support clinician-scientists sufficiently to combat age-related diseases?
Prof. Dr. Thomas Krieg, ML, Vice President Leopoldina, Cologne

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Extraocular ageing phenomena with implications for ophthalmology

11:00 Do not eat and live longer?!
Prof. Dr. Jens Brüning, ML, MPI Metabolism, Cologne

11:30 Transplantation of pancreatic islets to the iris to treat diabetes mellitus
Prof. Dr. Per-Olaf Berggren, Karolinska Institute Stockholm

12:00 DNA damage repair for UV-damage at skin and ocular surface
Prof. Dr. Björn Schumacher, Cologne

12:30 LUNCH: Minerva Lounge, MPI Ageing 13:30 Unmet needs and future perspective for age-related eye diseases

13:30 How AMD variants shape inflammation
Prof. Dr. Florian Sennlaub, Paris Sorbonne Université

14:00 Stem cells in the eye: a path to treating blindness?
Prof. Dr. Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt, ML, Erlangen

14:30 Presbyopia - a fateful phenomenon and its management
Prof. Dr. Rolf Guthoff, ML, Rostock

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 What is in the pipeline for pharmacological treatment options against age-related maculopathy
Prof. Dr. Sascha Fauser, VP Roche, Basel

16:00 Fuchs dystrophy: an age-related ophthalmological „Volkskrankheit“: current and future therapies
Prof. Dr. Mario Matthaei, Cologne Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen, ML, Cologne

16:30 Why is glaucoma an age-related disease?
Prof. Dr. Norbert Pfeiffer, ML, Mainz 17:00 Farewell

17:00 Farewell

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