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Fueling a Revolution in Retinal Care

In the 1990s, the 2014 Champalimaud Award Laureates worked in parallel and in collaboration to identify vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as the major trigger for angiogenesis in the eye. In 1993, they showed that the human retina synthesizes VEGF, and subsequently demonstrated that VEGF...

2014 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award

2014 António Champalimaud Laureates: Joan W. Miller, MD, FARVO, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD, Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO, Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, George L. King, MD, Anthony P. Adamis, MD; and Napoleone Ferrara, MD Dear Colleagues, In September, several Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical...

Comparing Diabetic Macular Edema Treatments

Results of the DRCR.net Protocol T Study In the first clinical trial directly comparing three drugs most commonly used to treat diabetic macular edema, researchers found all were effective in improving vision and preventing vision loss. However, one drug, aflibercept, provided greater improvement...