14:00-14:05   Welcome remarks, Franz Badura

15:05-15:30   Session 1 – Selected Poster Presentations

8 abstracts to be selected 

14:30-15:00   Keynote Lecture

Systems pharmacology for acquired and inherited retinal diseases 

Krzysztof Palczewski (Cleveland, USA) 

15:00-15:45   Coffee break + Poster Session I

15:45-16:10  Session 1 – Precision medicine – innovative approaches 

15:45-16:00  Splicing modulation therapy for inherited retinal disease using antisense oligonucleotides 

Rob W. J. Collin (Radboud UMC Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

16:00-16:15  Gene therapy for RPGR-related RP – strategy and first results from a clinical trial 

Yasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovic (University of Oxford, UK)

16:15-16:30  Pharmacotherapy for Stargardt disease 

Hendrik Scholl (University of Basel, Switzerland)

16:30-17:15   Coffee break – Poster Session II

17:15-17:20   Session 2 – Innovative model systems and technologies

17:15-17:30   An introduction to retinal organoids

Patricia Berber (University of Regensburg, Germany)

17:30- 17:45  Human retina organoid model for macular degeneration

Mike Karl (DZNE, Dresden)

17:45-18:00   Using single cell RNA-seq to investigate retinal injury and disease

Joshua R. Sanes (Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Sanes)

18:00-18:15   Transcriptional engineering, epigenome editing and epigenetic screens 

Stefan Stricker (HelmholtzZentrum München, München) 

18:15-18:30  Concluding remarks – announcement of the poster prize winners