Vision Research has to become a top priority on the agenda of all decision makers in Europe!
An impairment of vision or even complete blindness has a debilitating impact on the quality of life of the affected person, their relatives and friends and to the economic and social systems as a whole. This factor stimulated many European countries to dedicate resources to investigate the visual system and the underlying processes. Hence, the current social and economic developments and requirements in Europe necessitate for a better support, coordination and orientation of research in the field of visual sciences.
Key steps are a better integration of basic, clinical and applied research efforts, a clear definition of policies and guidelines, an efficient collaboration between the public and private sector together with a substantial increase of information and knowledge transfer activities.
Vision in the European Focus
Professor Sascha Fauser supervised a review article presenting the imaging modalities and criteria currently used to detect and quantify fibrosis in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). The study reveals significant heterogeneity in the current characterization of fibrosis. Most...
» An overview of the imaging modalities and criteria used to characterize fibrosis in nAMD
Professor José Cunha-Vaz, a member of the European Consortium for the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy (EUROCONDOR), contributed to a study evaluating the utility of serum glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and neurofilament light chain (NfL) in identifying and monitoring retinal...
» Serum biomarkers for retinal neurodysfunction
Professor Camiel J. F. Bonn supervised a review article presenting the currently available options to manage retinitis pigmentosa (RP). RP causes a gradual loss of visual function due to the degeneration of photoreceptors, with an individual-specific clinical course that is hard to predict. Although...
» A review on clinical management options for patients with RP
Professor Francesca M. Cordeiro co-authored a publication presenting a fully automated algorithm which, based on OCT images, can detect and quantify all six features of macular atrophy in wet AMD – namely: interrupted outer retina, interrupted retinal pigment epithelium, absence of outer retina,...
» Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ophthalmic diagnostics
