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Fresh from his exciting win of the Lasker Award - often dubbed the American Nobel Prize - Professor David Huang (USA) - the inventor of optical coherence tomography (OCT) - joins Prof Pearse Keane (UK) and Tunde Peto (Hungary/UK) to talk about how he and colleagues developed the technology and about the impact it has had on retinal medicine

As applications open for the Euretina Retinal Medicine Clinical Research Award, we hear about the award from Euretina EVP, Dara Conlon. We also gain interesting insights from previous winners Camiel Boon (Netherlands) and João Pedro Marques (Portugal) to see how the award has furthered their research.

In this podcast Euretina President, Mr Alistair Laidlaw and Euretina EVP Dara Conlon explore the highlights of this year's congress which is on track to be the biggest and most exciting meeting yet!

In this episode, journalist Ramadan Younis and his executive producer Simon Cox tell us about their far-reaching BBC documentary. "Blind Faith" exposes the international practice of defrauding patients of Retinitis Pigmentosa with false hopes of treatment or cure with little or no evidence of efficacy. They are joined by Prof Robert McLaren of the University of Oxford, who consulted on the documentary and evaluated the scientific claims being made by bad actors in the programme. You can watch the documentary here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f95ky3

In this episode, we’re going to dig into the subject of this year’s Ophtalmologica lecture which will be delivered on the Saturday afternoon at this year’s congress in Amsterdam. Professor Maximilan Pfau is a clinician with a specialism in AMD and Inherited Retinal diseases in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Eye Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. He's joined by Editor in Chief of the Ophthalmologica Journal; Professor Martin Zinkernagel

In this episode, we head to Asia to hear from colleagues in Japan, Singapore and South Korea about their experiences treating PCV and Pachychoroid in different populations. The podcast is chaired by Prof Taiji Sakamoto (Japan) and Prof SeungYoung Yu (South Korea) who are joined by Prof Gemmy Cheung and Prof Adrian Koh (Singapore)