Symposium 'Meet the Expert - Decoding inherited retinal disease: from patients to iPSC-derived retinal models'
- For whom
- Alumni , Employees , Students
- When
- 15-09-2026 from 14:00 to 16:00
- Where
- LOKAAL 0.8 – TOGETHER, THE CORE, CAMPUS UZ GENT, ,
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Contact
- elfride.debaere@ugent.be
Meet the Expert Symposium with talks by Prof Dr. Camiel Boon and Dr. Vasiliki Kalatzis
The event will take place on the afternoon (14:00-16.:00) preceding the public PhD defense of Eline Van Vooren (17.00h). It forms part of a seminar featuring Prof Dr. Camiel Boon from Amsterdam UMC (The Netherlands), who is a renowned expert in hereditary retinal diseases, gene and stem cell therapy, central serous chorioretinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
In addition, Dr. Vasiliki Kalatzis from L’Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier (France) will present her work involving human iPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and organoid models to determine the genetic basis and unravel the pathophysiology of inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), in addition to the development of innovative therapies.