VALENCIA, 1 ( EUROPA PRESS)
More than 800 experts, national and international, will meet in Valencia, during the next few days 2 and 3 March, to discuss the latest advances in the fight against blindness, in the framework of the 16th Annual Congress of the Spanish society of Retina and vitreous ( SERV), as reported by the organization in a statement.
The Congress will be a “breeding ground for ideas” in which ophthalmologists from United States, France, Germany, Israel and Spain will exchange experiences and information on related retinal diseases (diabetes, macular degeneration associated with age – DMAE – and short-sightedness), whose “potential growth” among the population of developed countries is one of the “major challenges” facing specialists.
Papers that will be presented at the Congress have as a common denominator the medicine of the future design and revolve around Bioengineering, genetic modification and cell therapy, which “open avenues of healing” for diseases of the retina, leading cause of blindness.
Meeting will also showcase recent progress with the use of stem cells and the implantation of microchips, currently in phase of clinical research, that will allow to recover part of the vision within a few years.
The rapporteurs, more than thirty, include personalities such as Francine Behar-Cohen, Alexander j. Brucker, Lucian V. de del Priore, Peter k. Kaiser, Anat Loewenstein and Helmut g. Sachs.
A MÉDICO-CIENTÃFICA entity
The Spanish society of Retina and vitreous, a scientific entity whose purpose is to promote awareness of the retina to improve the visual health of the population, has more than 500 Spanish ophthalmologists are members.
Among its objectives highlights also promote exchanges to “expand, promote and upgrade” studies related to the pathology and surgery of the retina, choroid and vitreous. In particular, the society promotes research, the exchange of knowledge and training, as well as the dissemination of new therapeutic methods.
