Welcome Breakfast and Registration The Starr Center, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston 7:00-8:00 am
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8:00 am |
Welcome |
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8:05 am |
Opening Address |
Robyn Guymer, PhD Deputy Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia; Head of Macular Research
The search for an early anatomical endpoint in atrophic AMD
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Omics Moderator: Margaret DeAngelis, PhD
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8:30 am |
Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science; Director, J. Terry Ernest Ocular Imaging Center, University of Chicago Medicine
Gut Microbiome and AMD; insights from germ-free and gnotobiotic animal models
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8:55 am |
Milam Brantley, MD, PhD Associate Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs; Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
AMD Metabolomics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Next Steps
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9:20 am |
Robert Mullins, PhD Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
What can we learn about atrophic and neovascular AMD from choroidal transcriptomics?
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9:45 am |
Panel Discussion |
Break (10:25am)
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Immunity Moderator: Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD
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10:45 am
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Andrew Dick, MD, PhD Duke Elder Chair and Director of Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London; Professor of Ophthalmolgy, Bristol Medical School
Regulating innate immunity in the RPE
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11:10 am |
Wei T. Wong, MD, PhD Vice President, Retinal Disease, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Neuroinflammatory targets and strategies for AMD therapies
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11:35 am |
Heping Xu, MD, PhD
Professor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast; Aier Institute of Optometry and Vision Science, Aier Eye Hospital Group, Changsha, China
Aging and neovascular AMD-mediated macular fibrosis
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12:00 pm |
Panel Discussion |
Lunch (12:40pm)
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Oxidative Stress Moderator: Goldis Malek, PhD
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1:40 pm
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Andrey Y. Abramov, PhD Professor, University College, London
The role of reactive oxygen species in physiology and pathology
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2:05 pm |
Pamela Martin, PhD Professor of Ophthalmology and Biochemisty and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia
Metabolite signaling and oxidative stress in aging RPE
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2:30 pm |
James T. Handa, MD Professor of Ophthalmology, John Hopkins Medicine
Oxidative Stress: What role does it play and when is it involved in AMD?
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2:55 pm |
Panel Discussion |
Break (3:35pm)
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4:00 pm
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Introduction to Friedman Lecture |
Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD Charles Edward Whitten Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear |
4:10 pm |
Introduction to speaker |
Joan W. Miller, MD Chair, Harvard Ophthalmology Chair Mass Eye and Ear and Mass General Hospital Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
4:15 pm |
Friedman Lecture |
Cathy Bowes Rickman, PhD Professor of Opthalmology and of Cell Biology Duke University School of Medicine |
Gala Dinner and Poster Contest The Liberty Hotel 6:00-10:00 pm (registration required)
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