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Blindness is one of the most feared health problems in our present society. It also has deep socio-economic and public health implications with a strong age-related component. Currently, millions of Europeans are threatened by blinding untreatable eye diseases with an associated loss to the economy of several billion Euros each year.
The ‘Parliamentarian Evening on Finding New Treatments for Blinding Disorders’ will provide information for devising and implementing programs and projects for new therapeutic strategies to combat eye diseases that are currently difficult or impossible to treat. The talks will incorporate the most recent scientific developments of the post genomic area each presented by a renowned expert of the field.
As part II of the Consolidated Vision Conference 2011 within ‘EuroVisionNet’ the suggested strategies should lead to sight-saving treatments, reduce visual impairment and blindness, and improve the quality of life for people of all ages.
6:00pm | Introduction Tony Moore, London, UK |
6:05pm | Welcome address Charles Tannock, MEP, Bruxelles, Belgium |
6:15pm | The importance of translational research Eberhart Zrenner, Tuebingen, Germany |
6:30pm | The patients’ perspective Christina Fasser, Zurich, Switzerland |
6:45pm | European Clinical Research Network – EVICR.net Jose Cunha-Vaz, Coimbra, Portugal |
7:00pm | Coffee Break |
7:30pm | Learning lessons from the USA James Jorkasky, Washington, D.C., USA |
7:50pm | The importance of European-wide collaboration in relieving blindness Peng Khaw, London, UK |
8:10pm | Concluding Remarks José Sahel, Paris, France |
8:15pm | Drinks Reception |
June 22th, 2011
6 pm - 9:15 pm
European Parliament
Room A5E2
Rue Wiertz 60
B-1047 Brussels, Belgium
Professor of Ophthalmology, President of AIBILI, Chairman of EVICR.net, Coimbra, Portugal
Professor of Ophthalmology, Honorary Consultant Moorfields Eye Hospital/Great Ormond Street Hospital, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
President Retina International, Zurich, Switzerland
Professor of Ophthalmology, Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, Director Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
Executive Director National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research, Washington D.C., USA
Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament, Bruxelles, Belgium
Professor of Ophthalmology, Director National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman European Vision Institute (EVI), Bruxelles, Belgium, Director Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany
The concept of EuroVisionNet (www.eurovisionnet.eu) is to coordinate and consolidate Vision Research activities and policies inEurope in order to overcome the national fragmentation. EuroVisionNet is coordinated by the European Vision Institute EEIG (www.europeanvisioninstitute.org) and intends to become an essential instrument for Vision Research in the 21st century by addressing the following four major objectives: