Stem Cell Research Webinar

[Becky_MacularSociety]

World-leading eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey, who is investigating the use of stem cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, will be hosting a webinar today to talk about the groundbreaking project.

The London Project to Cure Blindness is a partnership between Professor Pete Coffey from UCL and Professor Lyndon da Cruz, retinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. The Project has been supported by the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre.

The project started when researchers wanted to see if they could improve vision for people with sudden severe visual loss caused by wet AMD by replacing the diseased cells at the back of the patients’ affected eye using a stem cell-based treatment.

In March 2018 it was reported that the first patients to receive a new treatment derived from stem cells for people with wet AMD had gone from not being able to read at all even with glasses, to reading 60-80 words per minute with normal reading glasses.

The results of this groundbreaking clinical study, published in Nature Biotech, described the implantation of a specially engineered patch of retinal pigment epithelium cells derived from stem cells to treat people with sudden severe sight loss from wet AMD. It is hoped that it will also help treat dry AMD in the future.

Join Professor Pete Coffey in this free webinar at 1pm, where he will discuss the groundbreaking clinical studies and successful trials over the last 10 years and the future of the London Project to Cure Blindness

Register for the webinar.:

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See you There!

Becky

Macular Society

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[springcross]

Hi Becky. Will this be available as a podcast afterwards?

[Becky_MacularSociety Partner in reply to springcross]

Hi Springcross,

Unsure as it is not our webinar, it is from The London Project to Cure Blindness which is a partnership between Professor Pete Coffey from UCL and Professor Lyndon da Cruz, retinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

However there will be an opportunity to ask your own questions during the webinar

Thanks

Becky

[springcross in reply to Becky_MacularSociety]

Thanks Becky. xx

[Emelinep]

Thanks Becky. Unfortunately it was treatment day for me yesterday so I’ve only just seen your post. Hopefully there will be some sort of publication or recording for us to see later..

[springcross]

I booked in to watch it but couldn't connect. There was nothing for me to click to connect, it was quite frustrating. I'd had the email confirmation the ticket but I just couldn't do it. Then I noticed after about 15-20 minutes that I had to download the app and as I don't want to download anything on to my computer, I just left it. Was it good?

[Becky_MacularSociety Partner in reply to springcross]

It was very interesting, I have contacted them to see if it will be available elsewhere for others to watchh back and I am awaiting their reply

[springcross in reply to Becky_MacularSociety]

Brilliant, I hope it will. Thanks very much Becky. x