PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday, March 31, 2023
13:00–13:05.        Welcome remarks Franz Badura (Amberg, Germany)
13:05–14:30         SESSION 1 Selected poster presentations Eight abstracts to be selected
14:30–15:10          Keynote lecture Bart Leroy (Ghent, Belgium)
                               Why do clinical trials fail in ophthalomolgy?
15:10–16:00          Coffee break with scientific chit-chat
16:00–17:30          SESSION 2 IRD & RP
16:00–16:30          Knut Stieger (Giessen, Germany)
                                Developing tools for genome editing based therapies in IRD

Saturday, April 01, 2023
09:00–10:40         SESSION 3 Artificial Intelligence in ophthalmology
09:00–09:25         Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth (Vienna, Austria)
                                AI-based Fluid Monitoring in the real-world
09:25–09:50         Karsten Kortuem (Munich, Germany)
                                How an AI empowered retina clinic will change patient care
09:50–10:15          Andreas Maunz (Roche – Basel, Switzerland)
                                What makes AI interesting for clinical research and development?
10:15–10:40           Katharina Stingl (Tübingen, Germany)
                                Chorioretinal atrophies after Luxturna gene therapy
10:40–11:15            Coffee break
11:15–12:55            SESSION 4 Hot topics in AMD research and clinical translation
11:15–11:40             Przemyslaw (Mike) Sapieha, (Montreal, Canada)
                                 Neutrophil extracellular traps target –
                                 senescent vasculature for tissue remodeling in retinopathy
11:40–12:05            Andrew Lotery (Southhampton, UK)
                                 The potential to treat AMD with Complement Factor I
12:05–12:30           Natalia Pashkovskaia (Tübingen, Germany)
                                Assembloid and microfluidic approaches
                                 for in vitro modeling of human retinal diseases
12:30–12:55           Olaf Strauss (Berlin, Germany) Complement and AMD:
                                 Finally a new role of the terminal complement complex?
12:55–13:00           Concluding remarks
13:00                       Farewell Lunch and end of meeti
16:30–17:00           Christina Zeitz (Paris, France)
                                 Approaches to discover novel gene defects
                                 in progressive inherited retinal disorders
17:00–17:30           Carlo Rivolta (Basel, Switzerland)
                                 Genomics and bioinformatics to identify retinal disease genes
17:30                       Dinner
19:00–19:30           EVENING LECTURE Bernhard Weber (Regensburg, Germany)
                                 Know the score – Genetic testing in times of change
19:30–open            Swingin’ poster session

The organizing committee:

• Franz Badura
• Prof. Dr. Peter Charbel-Issa
• Prof. Dr. Antje Grosche
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Langmann

Abstract submission deadline: February 27, 2023.

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