Christine Curcio

Company: University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine

Job title: Emerita Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Seminars:

Novel Non-Invasive Retinal Imaging Biomarkers to Precede Geographic Atrophy 1:10 pm

Geographic atrophy includes photoreceptor depletion, reactive gliosis, and adhesion of retina to underlying tissue. Novel biomarkers are required for fast and accurate detection of disease stages earlier than atrophy. Current biomarkers for dry AMD include the presence and size of visible drusen deposits. However, drusen dynamism and the lack of methods for invisible drusen material…Read more

day: Workshop Day