FOR 2240 scientists Dr. Karina Hadrian, Alfrun Schönberg and Dr. Gwen Musial participated in the annual “Vision Camp 2021” organized by the European Vision Institute (EVI). The meeting took place online on 24th and 25th June 2021. The European Vision Institute (EVI) creates and implements programs and projects...

Dr. med. Hanhan Liu finished her medical studies at Tongji University in Shanghai in June 2013. After that, she worked for 2 years as an Ophthalmology resident at the Ophthalmology Department of Shanghai East Hospital and finished her master thesis.

ARVO is the largest organization for eye research and vision research worldwide. The virtual ARVO meeting 2021 took place in San Francisco from 1-7 May 2021. Researchers of the FOR 2240 were very active at this digital meeting: 19 FOR2240 members gave lectures or presented papers. FOR members were even present at Mini-symposia and Special interest groups (SIGs). Prof. Dr. med. Philipp Steven ran a special interest group (SIG) meeting about the topic “New-Perspective: Ocular Graft-versus-Host Disease is more than just another form of dry-eye disease” and presented results from his FOR [...]

Ms. Hanhan Liu and Dr. Rokohl from the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital in Cologne were able to convince with their research and won renowned awards in the beginning of 2021. Ms. Hanhan Liu, employee of the eye [...]

The German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) elected Professor Dr. Claus Cursiefen as Secretary General for the period of four years during their 118th annual meeting in Berlin. The renowned eye specialist´s tasks as Secretary General are assuring continuity of fundamental issues and liaising with other public and private institutions. Furthermore, Professor […]

After the signature of a cooperation agreement in 2019 between the Departments of Ophthalmology of the Tongji University Shanghai and University Hospital Cologne, the 2nd Shanghai-Cologne Ophthalmic Research Meeting took place online on 5th December during the 2020 China-Germany New technology forum of Tongji Ophthalmology. Professor Dr. Claus Cursiefen, Chairman […]

We are proud to announce that Dr. Alexander C. Rokohl was selected to attend the Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP) of the Medical Faculty at the University of Cologne. The outstanding scientific achievements of Dr. Alexander C. Rokohl attracted a lot of attention at national and international scientific meetings and […]