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Hundreds of vision disease experts came to Washington, D.C. this week for the 2014 Focus on Eye Health National Summit. BrightFocus and other vision advocacy groups help sponsor this annual event, which is organized by Prevent Blindness. Here are excerpts and insights from many of the featured speakers.
The week of July 20-24, 2014 brought the International Society for Eye Research (ISER) biennial meeting to U.S. shores. In San Francisco, ISER 2014 drew 800 scientists from 37 countries to hear about the latest in vision research.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and other techniques are improving our ability to look deep inside the eye. Thanks to National Glaucoma Research funding, BrightFocus researchers are among those who have advanced new imaging methods, taking them from experimental stages to their new threshold, where they wait to become standard as clinical tools.
After years spent researching a protein linked to inherited forms of glaucoma, Raquel Lieberman, PhD, and her team at Georgia Tech have provided a three-dimensional view of that protein and a better understanding of what can happen when it becomes misshapen through genetic miscoding.