Inherited retinal diseases and working age session

A tailored session for those with inherited retinal diseases and of working age.

The 2024 Macular Disease Conference: Hope for the Future took place on Saturday 14 September 2024.

Programme:

• 9.15 Welcome: Colin Daniels, Manager Working Age and Young People and Ed Holloway, Chief Executive, Macular Society
• 9.20 Dr Matteo Rizzi: Stargardt disease - how it affects vision and how gene therapy could help. 

• 9.55 Dr Jamie Ellingford: An update on The Manchester Eye Tissue Repository Genome-Transcriptome Project and how genetic changes can lead to macular disease in some people.
• 10.40 Break 

• 11.00 Thales A.C. de Guimaraes: Autosomal dominant drusen (AAD) in retinal disease.
  
• 11.30 Joshua Feehan: The Thomas Pocklington Trust "Get Set" intern program.
  
• 12.00 Lunch Break

Please note that timings are approximate and subject to change.

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