Expert, Pioneering, Connected
Retina 2020 brings together top international and Irish researchers and clinicians to showcase the latest updates on therapeutic interventions, eye care practices and scientific discovery.
Join us at Retina 2020
The Retina Conference is an annual event organised by Irish patient-led charity Fighting Blindness. Retina 2020 brings together top international and Irish researchers and clinicians in the global effort to find treatments and cures for conditions causing vision impairment and blindness.
In response to Covid-19, Fighting Blindness has developed a virtual experience for Retina 2020. This virtual meeting will take place on Friday 6 November with a stream of live and pre-recorded adapted presentations, which will be available on demand after the event.
To ensure a true Retina conference experience, we aim to deliver the highest quality content presented by world-renowned experts in the field of retina and a forum for researchers at all stages of their careers to exchange ideas and knowledge.
Agenda
Scientific Programme Speakers
Prof. Bart Leroy
Mild End-of-the-Spectrum Retinal Disease
Dr. Claire-Marie Dhaenens
Sex ratio imbalance in Stargardt disease associated with mild ABCA4 alleles
Dr. Jacque Duncan
Imaging as Outcome Measures for Clinical Trials in Inherited Retinal Degenerations
Dr. Ruth Hogg
Technological and practical challenges of home-monitoring age-related macular degeneration: The MONARCH study
Dr. Pearse Keane
Transforming Ophthalmology With Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Kate Coleman
Bringing The Retina To The Smartphone
Johnathan McCrea
Story Studio with Jonathan McCrea: The Words We Use
Avril Daly
Evidence based research – embracing the bigger picture
Early Career Researchers & Short Talk Presenters
Suzanne E. de Bruijn
Structural variants create new topological associated domains and ectopic retinal enhancer-gene contact in dominant retinitis pigmentosa
Ailís L. Moran
Functional interrogation of cone-rod dystrophy-associated RAB28 using C. elegans and zebrafish models
Dr. Ema Ozaki
SARM1 deficiency promotes rod and cone photoreceptor cell survival in a mouse model of retinal degeneration
Dr. Deirdre Harford
Demonstration of circadian mediated cycling of inner blood retinal barrier integrity in dry AMD patients and age matched controls
Public and Patient Involvement in Research Panelists
Michael Foley
PPI Ignite Programme Manager in Trinity College Dublin
Prof. Mary McCarron
Director of the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability, TCD
Dr. Aoife Cahill
Programme Manager - R&D for National Health
Prof. Sean Dineen
National Lead for the Diabetes Clinical Programme, HSE
Bec Hanley
PPI Expert
Your Hosts
Prof. Breandán Kennedy
University College Dublin
Dr. Laura Brady
Fighting Blindness
Poster Gallery
Our virtual poster gallery is the perfect opportunity for you to share your research efforts and connect with the wider community. A number of posters will be selected for presentation as part of the main Scientific Programme. Young Investigator Awards will be presented on the day.
Register here for a chance to have your work seen and win the Retina 2020 Young Investigator Award.
