Dr. Theodora Gianni is a physician and assistant consultant at Agia Sofia Children's Hospital in Athens. She earned her medical degree from the University of Ioannina and holds an MSc from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, along with the Fellowship of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO). Her research centers on pediatric ophthalmology, including refractive error prevalence in children, ocular manifestations of juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus, and nanomedicine approaches to age-related macular degeneration, with findings published in journals including Eye, Acta Ophthalmologica, and Pharmaceuticals.
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.
