Basic Science Speakers

  • William W. Hauswirth- “Therapy for Inherited Retinal Disease; Quo Vadis”
  • Stephen P. Daiger- “Progress in Finding Genes and Mutations Causing Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa”
  • Gerald A. Fishman- “Diagnosis and Management of Cystic macular Lesions in Patients with Inherited Retinal Dystrophies”
  • Jacque Duncan- “Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy: a new tool to monitor cones during retinal degeneration”
  • Andras M. Komaromy- “Achromatopsia- a Model Diesease for Cone-Directed Gene Therapy”
  • Arlene V. Drack- “Bardet Biedl Syndrome and Batten Disease: Considerations for Gene Therapy and Other Treatment Modalities”
  • Mark Pennesi- “An Update of Gene Therapy Trials at the Casey Eye Institute”
  • Shannon E. Boye- “Gene Therapy for Photoreceptor-Mediated Retinal Disease: Leber Congenital Amaurosis-1 (LCA1)”
  • Maria B. Grant- “Novel Adult Stem/Progenitor Cell Strategies for Retinal Repair”
  • David Gamm- “Potential Applications of Human iPS Cells to the Study and Treatment of Inherited Retinal Diseases”
  • Jane Sowden- “Developing Cone and Rod Photoreceptor Cell Transplantation for Retinal Repair”