Author: SOE

Joint meeting of South Eastern European Ophthalmology Society (SEEOS) and Romanian Society of Ophthalmology

Posted on 25th September 2014 in Society News

SOE are delighted to be holding a session on ‘Retina Update in a European Perspective’, at the Joint meeting of South Eastern European Ophthalmology Society (SEEOS) and Romanian Society of Ophthalmology. The meeting is taking place in Bucharest, Romania, from  October 1-4, 2014   Session Moderators are : Stefan Seregard SOE President, (Sweden) and Marko

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‘We’ve taken a momentous first step toward regenerative medicine using iPS cells’ – Masayo Takahashi

Posted on 15th September 2014 in Society News

A Japanese woman has become the first recipient of next-generation stem cells. Surgeons implanted retinal tissue created after reverting the patient’s own cells to ‘pluripotent’ state. Ophthalmologist Masayo Takahashi, had developed and tested the epithelium sheets which She derived  from the patient’s skin cells, after producing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and then getting them

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NOK YO Reception

Posted on 26th August 2014 in YO News

The SOE YO’s arranged two well attended sessions at the recent Nordic Congress of Ophthalmology (NOK), 2014, as well as a YO Reception which was a great opportunity for YO’s to meet up and network.    

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Nordic Congress of Ophthalmology (NOK)

Posted on 26th August 2014 in Society News

The Nordic Congress of Ophthalmology (NOK)  took place in Stockholm August 2014. The meeting was very well attended and featured a scientific programme including the very best speakers from the five Nordic countries, alongside many renowned lecturers from all over the world. In addition there were more than 50 interesting parallel session, covering a range of

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EMYO winners

Posted on 24th July 2014 in YO News

    The Winners of Best Rapid Fire Presentation and Best Video at the recent EMYO meeting were Taylan Ozturk (Best Rapid Fire Presentation) and  Altug Cetinkaya (Best video) The presentation and video will be upload onto the SOE web site shortly.

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