Gained in Translation, Vancouver BC. September 29th 2012
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Gained in Translation, Vancouver BC. September 29th 2012
LIONS EYE SUMMIT: GAINED IN TRANSLATION. Simple format; each talk has two speakers, a clinician and a scientist. They talk about their work related to a specific eye disease.
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Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD Welcome and Opening Remarks:
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#GainedinTranslation Clinicians and scientist share a mother tongue but dialects vary widely. Russell Van Gelder. -
Holly Chang, MD: Clinical challenges of ocular surface
squamous neoplasia
Val White, MD: HPV in
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#GainedinTranslation. Wear your eye protection and the other too. Risk of eye surface carcinoma increases with UV exposure and HPV infection
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Kevin Gregory-Evans, MD, PhD: New pharmaceutical approaches in retinal
therapeuticsJack Saari, PhD: Visual cycle modulation: An emerging concept in the treatment of
retinal diseasesDiscussion
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#GainedinTranslation Inherited retina disease patient? Register at FFB Canada. A database to help fight blindness http://www.ffb.ca
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Keynote Address
Don Zack, MD, PhD:
Use of high content screening approaches to identify
candidate neuroprotective molecules for the treatment of glaucoma and the
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#GainedinTranslation Molecules that protect your eye’s nerves. Automatic screening and photoreceptor assays show DLK involved in glaucoma
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Greg Maloney, MD: Challenges of repeat corneal graft failure
Tueng Shen, MD, PhD: Development of an artificial cornea for
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#GainedinTranslation Greg Maloney: 1.5 – 2 million people worldwide blind by corneal injury.
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#GainedinTranslation Can we reduce transplant rejection by replacing only parts of the cornea?
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#GainedinTranslation Artificial cornea with sensing chips and wireless signal for patient monitoring. Exiting perspective of the future!
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#GainedinTranslation: 90% of world’s blind in developing countries. 75% of those can be treated. Tueng Shen.
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Rob Schertzer, MD: Glaucoma: Not Just Pressure?
Phil Horner, PhD: Mitochondrial fusion and metabolic
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#GainedinTranslation: Rob Schertzer about glaucoma. One word… mitochondria!
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#GainedinTranslation– Phil Horner in early stage glaucoma: NeuN marker shows that neurons are still present after axon transport is gone.
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David Maberley, MD, MSc: Diabetic retinopathy
Ricky Wang, PhD: Ocular microcirculation imaging using
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New UW Bioengineering faculty member Ricky Wang using
New UW Bioengineering faculty member Ricky Wang using light rays to image … In this method of imaging, optical coherence tomography, … -
Mark Slabaugh, MD: Understanding the optic nerve head
structure in myopia and glaucoma
Paul Mackenzie, MD, PhD: Understanding the optic nerve head
structure in myopia and glaucoma
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#GainedinTranslation– High myopia seems to be associated with glaucoma. Diagnosis very difficult because optic nerve in myopic hard to image
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#GainedinTranslation– @RussVG thanks the speakers and invites to next year’s meeting in Seattle. Off to the Banquet. Bye!
