Sydney M Crago, Editor, Modern Retina

Emily Chew, MD, who won this year's Proctor Award, outlines her presentation on preparing for estimated doubling of age-related macular degeneration cases in the next 25 years at ARVO 2024.

Noel Brennan, MScOptom, PhD, overviews his ARVO 2024 presentation on reimagining the prediction of longer term efficacy numbers in data from pediatric trials evaluating myopia.

Deborah Ferrington, chief scientific officer at Doheny Eye Institute, details a session she gave on May 9 regarding mitochondria and how they change with health and in the diseased retina.

Giulia Corradetti, MD, discusses study findings that changes in microperimetry are highly localized and dependent on the OCT features.

Osamah Saeedi, MD, MS, details his ARVO 2024 presentation and the study finding's implications on monitoring and treating glaucoma.

The 2 FDA registration trials for perfluorohexyloctane resulted in scientifically significant results for improvement of mild and moderate symptoms of dry eye disease.

David A. Berntsen, OD, PhD, FAAO, talks through his 2024 ARVO presentation on the BLINK2 study and the findings on axial growth after discontinuing soft multifocal contact lens wear.

The Phase 1/2 study includes a dose-escalation phase of the study featuring 3 cohorts each one receiving either a low, medium, or high dose of OCU410.

MCO-010 demonstrated a statistically significant improvement of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at week 52.

The approval marks the first new steroid on the ophthalmic market in more than 15 years.

The data indicated that patients with Alzheimer’s disease who were treated with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors had a slightly lower hazard of developing AMD compared with untreated patients.

Catch up on a few of the top stories from Modern Retina in 2023.

The study of OliX Pharmaceuticals' investigative property saw encouraging results and helped to identify suitable dosing levels for future clinical trials.

The Vision Council’s Q3 Provider Insights study shows the sentiments of eye care providers nationwide as they manage practices and patient care.

These continued studies also demonstrate a well-tolerated safety profile in a broad population of more than 1,200 patients.

Paul Hahn, MD, PhD, shared insights on research comparing the relative efficacy of pegcetacoplan versus avacincaptad pegol in patients with geographic atrophy presented at the 2023 ASRS annual meeting.

Take a look back at the first half of 2023 as we explore the role of AI in the eye care field in anticipation of the changes to come.

A recently completed non-human primate study of VGX-0111 demonstrated good tolerability, provided strong transgene expression in the targeted region of the retina, and increased production of the lipids whose decline is associated with macular degeneration.

The company announced the Complete Letter Response from the FDA for the Biologics License Application for aflibercept 8 mg is “solely due to an ongoing review of inspection findings at a third-party filler."

The iPredict AI Eye Screening System will provide a fully automated age-related macular degeneration (AMD) screening report in less than 60 seconds.

Mitchell Jackson, MD, discussed laser scleral microporation from Ace Vision Group at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.

John Berdahl, MD, discussed the Aurion clinical trials of endothelial cell therapy injection at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.

Lori Pacheco, RN, CRNO, discussed sports-related eye injuries and how to prevent them at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.

Anthony Wallace, Vice President and General Manager of the US Surgical Business at Bausch + Lomb, discussed the introduction of SeeLuma, a fully digital surgical visualization platform, and more at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.

This medical device is the first retinal eye-movement monitor for non-invasive, objective clinical assessments.

Brian Shafer, MD, discussed Fortisite and the ability to treat corneal ulcers at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.

Ophthalmology Times® spoke with Mitch Shultz, MD at ASCRS 2023 in San Diego where he shared insights from his presentation comparing patient results of the Hydrus stent and the iStent inject W with or without ABiC (or ab-interno canaloplasty).

Lance Kugler, MD, recapped his presentation and findings on the safety of office space cataract surgery with the Ophthalmology Times© team at the ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.

Edward Hu, MD, PhD, discussed his paper on the single surgeon retrospective comparative analysis of 517 eyes of two subgroups of routine cataract surgery at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.

Zeba Syed, MD, from Wills Eye Hospital discussed their research on corneal swelling and dynamics during corneal collagen crosslinking at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting in San Diego.