March 24th 2024
In a recent study led by Steven Pittler, PhD, and his team at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB), the role of modifier genes in retinitis pigmentosa type 59 (RP59) was meticulously examined.
Medical Crossfire®: Expert Perspectives in Geographic Atrophy – How Can We Prepare for a New Era of Treatment?
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(CME Credit) Addressing Healthcare Inequities Diabetic Retinal Vascular Disease: How Can We Address Ethnic Disparities within the Clinic?
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(COPE Credit) Addressing Healthcare Inequities Diabetic Retinal Vascular Disease: How Can We Address Ethnic Disparities within the Clinic?
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Application of Recent Data in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Macular Edema: Managed Care Insights and Strategies
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface – Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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(COPE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(CME/CNE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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(CME/CNE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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18th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
May 4, 2024
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Headed to ARVO? You’re invited to dinner CME. Or, join virtually!
May 7, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(CME Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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2nd Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything in Between
May 18-19, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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(COPE Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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Neurotrophic Keratitis Management: How Early Intervention Can Make a Difference
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(CME Credit) Virtual Case Studies™ in Cataract Surgery: Selecting Surgical Techniques and Preventing Intra-Operative Complications
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(CME Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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17th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
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Thyroid Eye Disease: The Masquerading Eye Disorder—A Guide to Collaborative Care and Accurate Diagnosis
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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What’s New in MGD Beyond Heating and Squeezing?
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The gene-based AAVCOVID vaccine employs a unique adeno-associated viral vector technology that was shown in non-clinical, nonhuman primate studies to enable protection from SARS-CoV-2 challenge and to induce sustained antibody and cellular immune responses from a single dose for up to a year.
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Study: Gene therapy could preserve vision in patients with retinal disease, serious retinal injury
July 28th 2021Investigators uncovered evidence that CaMKII could prove to be a desirable therapeutic target for vision preservation in conditions that damage the axons and somas of retinal ganglion cells.
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Phase I clinical trial of UBX1325 yields positive data for patients with vascular eye disease
July 9th 2021According to Unity Biotechnology, its trial for the small molecule inhibitor of Bcl-xL found improvement in visual acuity and central subfield thickness observed in diabetic macular edema and wet age-related macular degeneration patients treated with UBX1325.
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According to the company, preclinical study results from a 42-day proof-of-concept in vivo study demonstrated a single, intralacrimal gland injection of an adeno-associated virus containing the NGF gene produced statistically significant increase in NGF in tear film, as compared to placebo, as early as Day 7.
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Results unveiled from phase 2/3 gene therapy study for XLRP
May 14th 2021While Biogen’s XIRIUS study did not meet its primary endpoint of demonstrating a statistically significant improvement in treated eyes, positive trends were observed across several clinically relevant prespecified secondary endpoints.
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Gene therapy prompts foveal morphologic changes in LCA
May 10th 2021Friederike Kortuem, MD, MSc, discusses how treatment with voretigene neparvovec-rzyl led to a short-term change in the foveal morphology in a patient with visual impairment that included nyctalopia and decreased visual acuity in early childhood.
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