Retina World Congress

Breakthrough suprachoroidal injection technique offers promising treatment for diabetic retinopathy, reducing visual threatening complications from 37% to 4% with minimal inflammation and office-based procedure.

Two FDA-approved geographic atrophy treatments show significant patient dropout, with 45% discontinuation by 18 months, driven by baseline vision, CNV, and lack of immediate visual improvement.

Ophthalmologist Dilraj Grewal explores cutting-edge clinical trials for uveitis treatment, highlighting new targeted therapies that aim to control inflammation and macular edema with fewer steroid-related side effects.

Lexitas Pharma Services' CMO discusses groundbreaking ophthalmology conference, emphasizing innovative clinical trials, emerging treatments for eye diseases, and the potential for transformative patient care strategies.

Retina specialist Priya Vakharia, MD, reveals promising ANX007 trial results, showing potential to prevent vision loss in geographic atrophy.

Ophthalmologist Tarek Hassan introduces new surgical approach for proliferative vitreoretinopathy, using precise small retinotomies instead of extensive retinal removal to improve patient outcomes.

Ultra-wide field imaging shows nonperfusion and leakage independently predict diabetic retinopathy progression, suggesting earlier treatment with anti-VEGF or photocoagulation may prevent complications.

Four-year study shows faricimab in treat-and-extend regimen maintains vision for diabetic macular edema patients with significantly fewer injections over time.

Kapil Mishra, MD, discusses an overview of radiation retinopathy and its challenges in treating uveal melanoma from his presentation "Radiation Retinopathy: Future Strategies,"

Duke professor Sharon Fekrat, MD, discusses AI-driven ophthalmology with smartphone diagnostics and robotic procedures, emphasizing global collaboration and innovative medical research.

At Retina World Congress 2025, Dilsher S. Dhoot, MD, shares updates on the HELIOS trial and the potential future of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).

Companies working in the retina space have announced that data from clinical trials will be shared at this year’s meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Durga Borkar, MD, MMCi, spoke with Modern Retina about the quality data (Qdata) gathered on geographic atrophy as well as the GATHER 1 and GATHER 2 data she presented at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Ash Abbey, MD, spoke with Modern Retina at the 2024 Retina World Congress in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He shared details about the week 32 data from the phase 2 DAVIO-2 trial for EYP-1901.

J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS, spoke about a recent study looking at what happens to patients with diabetic retinopathy who are lost to follow-up. He presented this research at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

David Almeida, MD, PhD, MBA, shared insights on the surgical tools he uses in his practice at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Dilsher S. Dhoot, MD, shared details about the Week 52 safety and efficacy data from the US phase 1 clinical trial of sustained-release axitinib hydrogel implant (OTX-TKI) for neovascular age-related macular degeneration at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Professor Paulo-Eduardo Stanga spoke with Modern Retina about a new wearable assistance device at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

David Eichenbaum, MD, spoke with Modern Retina about the phase 3 trial of sozinibercept at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting.

Modern Retina spoke with Paulo-Eduardo Stanga, MD, from The Retina Clinic London, London, United Kingdom at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting.

Christine Kay, MD, spoke with Modern Retina to share insights from her presentation on longitudinal BCVA and safety analysis of mutation-agnostic MCO-010 optogenetic therapy For retinitis pigmentosa

David Almeida, MD, PhD, MBA, presented on gene therapy associated uveitis at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Sunir Garg, MD, FACS, shares strategies to minimize pain with intravitreal injections.

Modern Retina spoke with Veeral Sheth, MD, MBA, FASRS, FACS, at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting about the PRISM study, 4DMT's gene therapy trial for wet AMD.