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Q&A: Andreas Pollreisz explains when to use and not use widefield OCT-A imaging | Ophthalmology Times
Photo of Andreas Pollreisz at the 2025 EURETINA meeting in Paris, France Andreas Pollreisz, MD, a medical and surgical retina specialist from the Medical University of Vienna, discussed widefield OCT-A imaging at the 2025 EURETINA meeting in Paris, France. He…
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences’ Jonathan Lass joins a team studying the success of transplants of corneal tissue donated from diabetic individuals after death | CWRU Newsroom
\n \n CWRU-led research team receives $6.4 million NIH grant \n\n Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Jonathan Lass, the Charles I Thomas Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, is part of a team of researchers awarded a…
David Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, advances ophthalmic training with near real surgical specimens | Ophthalmology Times
David Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, highlights near real surgical systems (NRSS), providing ophthalmologists with anatomically accurate models that replicate real surgical scenarios for training, research, and device development. (Image credit: AdobeStock/Iurii) A vitreoretinal surgeon and clinician-scientist with Erie Retina Research…
Part 5: What if? Curing any eye disease with the snap of your finger | Ophthalmology Times
In celebration of Ophthalmology Times‘ 50th anniversary, we asked leading experts in the field, in a perfect world, if they had the ability to cure one eye disease or condition in the snap of their finger, what they would choose…
Kalaris enrolling phase 1b/2 study of TH103 for nAMD | Ophthalmology Times
(Image credit: ©kwanchaift/AdobeStock) Kalaris Therapeutics announced the company is currently enrolling a phase 1b/2 multiple ascending dose (MAD) study of TH103 for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).1 “The phase 1b/2 study represents an important milestone in advancing…
Enhancing Vision With Small Aperture Extended Depth of Focus IOLs and Adjunctive PRK in Patients With Keratoconus
A panelist discusses how a 50-year-old male patient with stabilized keratoconus achieved excellent visual outcomes with an IC-8 small aperture IOL by targeting slight myopia to optimize the defocus curve, followed by adjunctive PRK to address central corneal astigmatism that…
Timothy Lai on the SALWEEN trial
Photo of Timothy Lai, MD, at EURETINA 2025 in Paris, France Timothy Lai, a clinical professor honorary at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, presented the one-year data from the Salween study…
Sruthi Arepalli, MD, spotlights a deep-dive orbital tour of the eye
To learn more about or to register for EyeCon 2025, click here. Set against the backdrop of a scenic Florida coastline and a growing emphasis on cross-specialty collaboration in eye care, the Ophthalmology Times and Optometry Times EyeCon® 2025 conference is…
Effects of calcium channel blockers on visual field progression in glaucoma patients
(Image credit: AdobeStock) Researchers from UK and Italian institutions investigated the association between the effects of calcium channel blockers and the rate of visual field (VF) progression in patients with glaucoma. First author Giovanni Montesano, MD, PhD, and colleagues reported…
Study links AMD to higher cardiovascular disease mortality in high-risk patients
Australian researchers identified in a recent study an association between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD): they showed that the presence of AMD predicted an increased risk of all-cause and CVD mortality in patients with a high risk…