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posterior segment • innovation • enlightenment
10 | 07 | 2023
PIE M A G A ZINE ’ S D A ILY CONGR E S S NE W S ON T HE P O S T E RIOR S E GME N T
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Tips & Tricks in Vitreoretinal Surgery Experts of Club Jules Gonin shared their surgical pearls to delegates.
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Hope On The Horizon for Retinal Diseases The latest findings of a number of studies testing new drugs for the treatment of retinal diseases were presented.
Research Awards
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Took Center Stage at
EURETINA 2023
by Matt Herman
Engaging in retinal research can yield significant rewards. In a special session at the EURETINA congress yesterday, the organization took to the stage and generously awarded the most promising research projects from across the continent.
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ome get into medicine for the prestige, but the awards handed out at the Research Awards Session on Day 2 of the 23rd EURETINA Congress in Amsterdam (EURETINA 2023) was of a different kind. A mix of prominent names and upstart clinician scientists gathered in the Auditorium at RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre to celebrate funding projects shaping the future of retinal medicine. In total, an eye-watering €684,000 was awarded in 2023 to a group of three clinician scientists from across Europe. But it wasn’t all just about the new. Also invited to the session were two previous awardees of EURETINA grants to discuss their projects and the impact they are having on modern ophthalmology.
Mighty metabolites The search for answers in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) got a shot in the arm with Prof. Rufino Martins Da Silva’s grant for work investigating the role metabolites play in the progression of the disease. His 2020 award-winning project, entitled Metabolomics: A Novel Tool for Investigating the Pathogenesis of Age-related Macular Degeneration, aimed to analyze the association between plasma metabolomic profiles and progression of AMD over a fiveyear period. Prof. Da Silva’s model found three baseline plasma metabolites associated with AMD
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