Friday, April 12, 2024

13:00 – 13:05 Welcome remarks

Franz Badura (Amberg, Germany)

13:05 – 14:30 SESSION 1

Selected poster presentations

Eight abstracts to be selected

14:30 – 15:10 Keynote lecture

Kapil Bharti (Bethesda, USA)

Developing stem cell-based therapies for degenerative diseases of the eye

15:10 – 16:00 Coffee break with scientific chit-chat

16:00 – 17:40 SESSION 2

 Know your gene

16:00 – 16:25 Gavin Arno (London, UK)

 The clinical utility of nanopore sequencing for inherited eye disease diagnosis

16:25 – 16:50 Maximilian Gerhard (Munich, Germany)

 Gene therapy in clinical practice

16:50 – 17:15 Klaus Rüther (Berlin, Germany)

 Genetic diagnostics in retinal dystrophies – benefit for the patients

17:15 – 17:40 Avril Daly (Dublin, Ireland)

Retina International

Know your gene – the patient perspective

17:40 Dinner

19:00 – 19:30 EVENING LECTURE

Christine Curcio (Birmingham, USA)

 Leveraging photoreceptor topography for a progression sequence of AMD

19:30 – open Swingin’ poster session

 Saturday, April 13, 2024

 09:00 – 10:40 SESSION 3

 Updates on RPE in retinal degeneration

09:00 – 09:25 Achim Göpferich (Regensburg, Germany)

Nanoparticles for intraocular drug delivery

09:25 – 09:50 Christelle Monville (Corbeil-Essonnes, France)

Phase i/ii open-label study of implantation into one eye of hESC-derived RPE in patients with retinitis pigmentosa due to monogenic mutation: first safety results

09:50 – 10:15 Peter Charbel-Issa (Oxford, UK)

Novel tools to image the RPE in patients

10:15 – 10:40 Anu Kauppinen (Kuopio, Finland)

 Anti mycin A-induced mitochondrial dysfuncti on regulates inflammasome signaling in human retinal pigment epithelial cells

10:40 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:55 SESSION 4

 Retinal organoids in development, disease and therapy

11:15 – 11:40 Volker Busskamp (Bonn, Germany)

Generating vascularized human retinal organoids

11:40 – 12:05 Magdalena Renner (Basel, Switzerland)

 High throughput retinal organoids for therapy development

12:05 – 12:30 Majlinda Lako (Newcastle, UK)

Retinal organoids: a window into development, disease and drug discovery

12:30 – 12:55 Verena Hübschmann (Klosterneuburg, Austria)

 The impact of human microglia in retinal organoid development

12:55 – 13:00 Concluding remarks

13:00 Farewell Lunch and end of meeting

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