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Retina Group

Multidisciplinary research group focused in translational research in: Retinal detachment and its major complication (proliferative vitreoretinopathy), Cell therapy for Aged Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy

Methodology

Clinical studies. Databases. Human samples
Candidate genes studies
Experimental models

Scientific Cooperations

Cooperation 1
Retina 1 Project participants: Clinica Barraquer (Barcelona, Spain), Fundación Oftalmológica del Mediterraneo (Valencia, Spain), Hospital Clínico Universitario (Valladolid, Spain), Hospital de Donostia (San Sebastián, Spain), Hospital General Yagüe (Burgos, Spain), Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles (Avila, Spain), Hospital Ramón y Cajal (Madrid, Spain), Hospital Reina Sofia (Córdoba, Spain), Hospital San Millán (Logroño, Spain), Hospital Sao João (Porto, Portugal), Hospital Universitario de Canarias (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain), Hospital Universitario de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal), Hospital Universitario del Rio Hortega (Valladolid, Spain), Hospital General Universitario de Valencia (Valencia, Spain), Hospital Universitari Vall de Hebrón (Barcelona, Spain), Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante (Alicante, Spain), and Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada (Valladolid, Spain).
Cooperation 2
Retina 3 participants: Hospital Reina Sofía de Murcia, Clinica Universitaria de Navarra, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Hospital Clinico de San Carlos de Madrid, Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Hospital Universitario Pio del Rio Hortega de Valladolid, Clínica Barraquer, Hospital Vall de Hebron de Barcelona
Cooperation 3
Retina 4 participants: IOBA, Hospital Clínico de Valladolid, Hospital Vall de Hebron, Clinica Barraquer, Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Hospital de San Joao de Oporto, Moorfields Eye Hospital de Londres
Cooperation 4
Retina 5: Instituto de Neurociencias de la Universidad de Salamanca, Instituto de Biologia y Genética Molecular de la Universidad de Valladolid, Grupo BioForge de la Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad de León, Banco de Tejidos Clínica San Francisco de León
Cooperation 5
Retina 6: Facultad de Veterinaria de la Universidad de León, Instituto de Neurociencias de Castilla y León

Group Leader

José-Carlos Pastor-Jimeno
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Contact

University of Valladolid

Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada (IOBA)

Edificio IOBA
Campus Miguel Delibes
Camino del Cementerio s/n
47011 Valladolid
Spain

Phone: 00 34 983 423274
Fax: 00 34 983 1847 62

Email:
pastor[at]ioba.med.uva.es

Website:
www.ioba.es

Current Research Projects

Project 1
Retina 1. Multicentric study for identification of clinical risk factors implicated in proliferative vitreoretinopathy development after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Project 2
Retina 3. Safety and efficacy of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide associated to grid laser photocoagulation for Diabetic Macular Edema
Project 3
Retina 4. Genetic approach to early identification of retinal detachment patients at high risk to develop proliferative vitreoretinopathy
Project 4
Retina 5. Cell therapy for dry forms of Age Macular Degeneration
Project 5
Retina 6. Organoypic culture of pig’s retina as a model of retinal detachment and proliferative vitreoretinopathy

Research Groups

People

Related Research Groups

age-related macular degeneration: Ader, Marius; AIBILI; Arden, Geoffrey; Audo, Isabelle; Beattie, Renwick; Berendschot, Tos; Bergen, Arthur; Berger, Wolfgang; Bird, Alan; Cremers, Frans; den Hollander, Anneke; Dias, Aylvin; Enzmann, Volker; Fighting Blindness; Greenwood, John; Grimm, Christian; Grus, Franz; Hammond, Chris; Hauck, Stefanie; Heiduschka, Peter; Hicks, David; Holz, Frank G.; Humphries, Peter; Inglehearn, Chris; Joachim, Stephanie; Johnsen-Soriano, Siv; Julien, Sylvie; Kennedy, Breandan; Larsen, Michael; Lengyel, Imre; Lotery, Andrew John; Moore, Tony; Navea, Amparo; Petersen, Michael; Research Group of Tunde Peto; Sennlaub, Florian; Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis; Riva, Charles; Rubin, Gary; Schmetterer, Leopold; Strauss, Olaf; Sørensen, Torben Lykke; Topouzis, Fotis; Ueffing, Marius; Weber, Bernhard; Wright, Alan; Xu, Heping
candidate gene analysis: Audo, Isabelle; Berger, Wolfgang; Bhattacharya, Shomi; Calonge, Margarita; Dollfus, Hélène; Inglehearn, Chris; Schaeffel, Frank; Wissinger, Bernd; Zeitz, Christina
clinical (human) or epidemiologic studies: risk factor assessment: Bandello, Francesco; Berendschot, Tos; Calonge, Margarita; Guggenheim, Jez; Hammond, Chris; Larsen, Michael; Moore, Tony; Prokofyeva, Elena; Reinhard, Thomas; Detorakis, Efstathios; Jansonius, Nomdo; Scanlon, Peter; Schmetterer, Leopold; Topouzis, Fotis
corticosteroids: Calonge, Margarita
diabetic retinopathy: AIBILI; Arden, Geoffrey; Bandello, Francesco; Barbur, John; Beattie, Renwick; Dias, Aylvin; Greenwood, John; Johnsen-Soriano, Siv; Kennedy, Breandan; Larsen, Michael; Navea, Amparo; Research Group of Tunde Peto; Stitt, Alan; Sennlaub, Florian; Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis; Riva, Charles; Romero, Francisco Javier; Rubin, Gary; Scanlon, Peter; Schmetterer, Leopold; Xu, Heping
proliferative vitreoretinopathy: Berger, Wolfgang
retinal culture: Ader, Marius; Arango-Gonzalez, Blanca; Ekström, Per; Goureau, Olivier; Grus, Franz; Langmann, Thomas; Martin, Keith; Paquet-Durand, Francois; Picaud, Serge; Reichenbach, Andreas; Sennlaub, Florian; Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis; Sahaboglu, Ayse; Sancho-Pelluz, Javier; Thanos, Solon; van Veen, Theo; Wolfrum, Uwe
retinal detachment: Cremers, Frans; Reichenbach, Andreas; Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis
retinal pigment epithelium: Arden, Geoffrey; Bergen, Arthur; Bhattacharya, Shomi; Bird, Alan; Bovolenta, Paola; Greenwood, John; Hamel, Christian ✝; Heiduschka, Peter; Hicks, David; Holz, Frank G.; Julien, Sylvie; Lengyel, Imre; MacLaren, Robert; Marigo, Valeria; Sennlaub, Florian; Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis; Strauss, Olaf; Thanos, Solon; Ueffing, Marius; Weber, Bernhard
retinal detachment: Cremers, Frans; Reichenbach, Andreas; Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis
proliferative vitreoretinopathy: Berger, Wolfgang
diabetic macular edema
cell therapy: Calonge, Margarita