Novel gene therapy platform speeds search for ways to cure blindness
July 25th 2022A novel computational platform developed by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine identifies top-performing viral vectors that could deliver gene therapies to the retina with maximum efficiency and precision.
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How to inhibit photoreceptor death? A new way to fight pigmentary retinopathy
July 21st 2022A team of scientists, led by Andrzej Foik, PhD, of the International Center for Translational Eye Research in Poland, is working on new therapies that may slow vision loss in patients diagnosed with retinal degeneration.
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Speaking at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, The Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Ophthalmology, chairman of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, outlined his investigation of the anatomic and functional outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy, scleral buckle, or a combination of the 2, and suggested that the combination approach may need further consideration.
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ASRS LIVE: TRUCKEE Study shows real-world safety and efficacy of faricimab for neovascular AMD
July 16th 2022Speaking at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York, Carl Danzig, MD, detailed how treatment with faricimab in patients with neovascular AMD resulted in improvements in visual acuity, central subfield thickness and pigment epithelial detachments.
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ASRS LIVE: Tools developed to identify risk of vision loss to diabetic retinopathy
July 15th 2022During a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York, Bobeck S. Modjtahedi, MD, presented results of a study that examined the accuracy of tools for predicting the risk of vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy.
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ASRS Live: Diabetic therapy metformin may have protective effect against AMD
July 15th 2022In a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists, Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD, points out that the low-to-moderate doses of metformin carried the greatest potential benefit in a retrospective case-control study.
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ASRS LIVE: Pearls for tackling pediatric retinal detachment surgery in US
July 14th 2022In a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, detailed that primary scleral buckling achieved the best visual acuity, and pointed out that rhegmatogenous detachments increased with age.
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Two-year data confirms faricimab improves vision for patients diagnosed with wet-AMD
July 14th 2022In the TENAYA and LUCERNE studies, more than 60% of faricimab patients could be treated every 4 months at 2 years, an increase from 45% at year 1. Study results are being presented at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York.
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Research to Prevent Blindness awards grant to OU Department of Ophthalmology
July 12th 2022The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has received an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness for $575,000 over 5 years to support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology.
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Wills Eye Hospital names new co-chief residents
July 12th 2022Charles Brodowski, MD, and Patrick Rapuano, MD, have been named co-chief residents at Wills Eye Hospital, and will lead the team of resident doctors on staff, focusing on training and recruitment while attending to their own medical resident duties.
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