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ARVO 2011 Using the eye as a window into the brain

By on May 4, 2011

Due to the pressure of other commitments, I only had the pleasure of attending the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) for two days, but one of my key take home messages from the meeting is how we can use the eye as a window into the brain.  This is particularly relevant to Alzheimer’s research.

ARVO researchers at a lunchtime workshop that I attended asked the question of what can we learn from shared disease mechanisms in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Glaucoma to devise therapies of the future?

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ARVO 2011 Electronic Posters Available Online

By on May 2, 2011

There is a lot of innovative research being presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting here in Fort Lauderdale.

ARVO 2011 Poster Hall 300x225 ARVO 2011 Electronic Posters Available OnlineFor those unable to attend, a large number of poster presentations are now available online with free access.

Not all posters are being made available electronically, only a select few have been invited by the Program Committee, and not every presenter invited has made their poster available.

The online electronic posters will be added to over the next few days of the conference after they have been presented.  I am impressed that ARVO have made this information publicly available at no cost through June 30th.

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ARVO 2011 Annual Meeting Conference Coverage

By on April 30, 2011

Lifeguard Tower Miami Beach Florida © Pieter Droppert 150x150 ARVO 2011 Annual Meeting Conference CoverageThe annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) starts tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale. There are some educational courses that are also running today.

Many of the vision researchers and ophthalmologists will be sharing their thoughts from the conference.

If you are interested in following the Twitter discussion (hashtag #ARVO11), you can do so using the aggregator below – just click on the play button to see the tweets.

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Will the future offer artificial retina transplants?

By on April 29, 2011

There is a lot of buzz this week about Lucentis versus Avastin for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), something that will be talked about in more detail at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting this weekend in Fort Lauderdale.

Also on the radar at ARVO is more news from Second Sight and their Argus II Retinal Prosthesis (something that I have previously written about on this blog).  For those interested there is a press conference at ARVO on Tuesday, May 3 from 5-6pm.

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