Retinal Cell Rescue - Sixth Annual

Attendance at the Vision Research conference prior to the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) meeting (5-10 May 2002) has become essential for international researchers in the field of retinal degeneration. The meeting was chaired by Eberhart Zrenner (University Eye Hospital Tubingen, Germany) and the 2002 theme was retinal cell rescue focused on emerging strategies for vision restoration in retinal disease, including gene-based, cell-based and prosthetic implant approaches. Most presentations addressed shorter-term goals, such as retarding photoreceptor cell death in general, mapping multicellular remodeling of the neural retina following photoreceptor loss, and seeking common principles for regulation of retinal development, regeneration and stem cell behavior. The sixth Vision Research conference was cosponsored by Elsevier Science (Oxford, UK) and ARVO (Rockville, USA).