Dr. Sadda is President & Chief Scientific Officer of the Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles CA, USA. He is an internationally recognized expert in the area of retinal imaging. In 2006, he founded the Doheny Image Reading Center (DIRC). With over 80 employees, it is the largest in the […]
Dr. Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha is the director of the Neurovascular Eye Disease Lab at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre (HMR - RC) and holds the Wolfe Professorship in translational vision research and a Canada Research Chair in retinal cell biology. He is an associate professor in the departments of Ophthalmology […]
Professor Christiana Ruhrberg is an internationally known expert in neuronal and vascular development and one of the world’s leading researchers in defining mechanisms of blood vessel growth in the brain and eye. Her three main interests are neurovascular co-patterning, molecular regulation of angiogenesis, and signal transduction in vascular hyperpermeability. She […]
Dr. Rupenthal is an innovator in ocular drug delivery ideas. Her current research, co-funded by a Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship from the New Zealand Health Research Council, focuses predominantly on the development of stimuli-response ocular drug delivery systems with projects investigating implants responsive to ultrasound, light or a […]
Friday June 30th 2017 3:00 pm Arrival, Hotel Check-in in Neues Gasthaus 3:30 pm Coffee and cake outside of Seminar room 1 4:00 pm Welcome & presentations of P1, P-new, C1, P2, P5 (break: 5:15-5:40 pm) 6:30 pm PI meeting 7:30 pm Group photo 7:45 pm Dinner & Drinks […]
FOR 2240 Symposium final program 2017 Cologne The FOR 2240 Symposium “Innovative concepts in anti-inflammatory and anti(lymph)angiogenic therapies in the eye” will be held from 20-21 October 2017 on the Life Sciences Campus of the University of Cologne, Germany at the Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne. The goal of the […]
Prof. Maruyama will give a talk on "Comprehensive analysis of vitreous specimens for uveitis classification". This lecture will have a clinical orientation. In addition to his Osaka position, he is a part time Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefecutal University of Medicine, Japan, and Adjunct Scientist at […]
Prof. Paquet-Durand is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen and Chief Scientific Officer of Mireca Medicines GmbH. His talk will be on: "Targeting cGMP-signalling in inherited retinal degeneration: from basic research to clinical translation, Founding of Drugsford" This talk is hosted by the Bayer Graduate […]
Akiyoshi Uemura (MD, PhD) is Professor at the Department of Retinal Vascular Biology at Nagoya City University, Japan. His three recent papers published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and a seminal report in Cancer Cell highlight the function of important vascular factors and pericytes for retinal and tumor angiogenesis. […]
As a part of the CMMC‘s seminar series, Prof. Frank‘s lecture on "ABCB5-positive stem cells in development and regeneration" will concern her laboratory research work on identifying clinically relevant stem cell populations in diverse human tissues, with special emphasis on the relevant role of the ATP-binding cassette transporter ABCB5, which […]
