Dr. Ioannis Tsinopoulos is a professor of ophthalmology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he practices at the 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Papageorgiou Hospital, and heads the university's Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology. He earned his medical degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed his ophthalmology residency and further training in Germany, including an MD thesis at Munich University on phacoemulsification cataract surgery. His research spans cataract and intraocular lens surgery, nanotechnology applications in ophthalmology, and ocular cell biology, with roughly 90 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and a strong presence at both European and international congresses.
The authors of a review of 16 gene therapy trials for inherited retinal diseases explain why the pediatric evidence base remains thin and argue that individual-level, age-stratified reporting is the change most needed before CRISPR-based editing reaches children.
