Symposia:

• Advancing therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative blindness
• Imaging cellular dynamics: Current trends in ophthalmic research
• Vision for the future: Exploring the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in ophthalmology
• Innovative approaches for harnessing novel small and biomolecules for the treatment of eye diseases
• Developing gene therapy for glaucoma neuroprotection: Opportunities and challenges

Mini-Symposia:

• Vice President Session: Understanding the initial stages of diabetic eye disease
• Beyond the bottleneck: Nonaxonal signaling mechanisms in glaucoma and new approaches to neuroprotection (VN)
• Vision to future: The translational scientist (AP)
• Retinal barriers: Formation, function and disruption (RC)
• Modelling vision at multiple scales: In search of a virtual visual system (VI)
• A roadmap for developing vision-restoring therapies for patients suffering from optic neuropathy (GL)
• Biomechanical properties of normal, aging, and pathological eye tissues (LE)
• The complete scientifc program has not been published yet. We will update any information asap.
• Novel approaches and models to gain insight in albinism (EY)

• Vice President Session: Next-gen researchers in ocular immunology and microbiology (IM)

• Functional consequences of amblyopia (EY)

• Envision the future of ophthalmology through generative AI in images and language (CL)