Source: Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University 

Edited by: Liu Nian 

  

On August 20, 2016, the Ophthalmology Strategic Symposium 2016, co-hosted by Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC), State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology (SKLO) and Guangdong Medical Association (GMA), was held at Zhudao Guest House in Guangzhou. The attendees include Yanrong Sun, Director of the Department of S&T for Social Development; Academician Qi Zhou; Academician Honghao Zhou; Academician Lin Chen; Lixin Xie; Prof. Ningli Wang, Chairman of the Chinese Ophthalmology Society (COS); standing members and members from COS; standing members from Guangdong Ophthalmology Society and principal investigators from ZOC. 

 

 

The opening ceremony was hosted by Prof. Yizhi Liu, Director of ZOC and Dean of the Eye Hospital. Prof. Liu began his speech with his thanks for the presence of leaders from Ministry of S&T and ophthalmologists. He suggested that China has been ready to embark on the road towards a technological and scientific power, and that the innovation-driven development has gone mainstream. He also pointed out that ophthalmologists should actively participate in national key research and development plans, devote themselves to advanced basic research, and improve the ophthalmology while addressing our country’s major demands. He hoped that the Symposium could help to narrow down the development direction, highlight the key points of scientific research, and promote the development of SKLO and China’s ophthalmology. 

 

 

Prof. Ningli Wang, Chairman of COS, also delivered a speech. He pointed out that in recent years, SKLO had published papers on various top-notch journals and had made remarkable academic achievements. With the joint efforts of ophthalmologists, China’s ophthalmology had ranked high among clinical subjects both at home and abroad. “Apart from death, nothing can be more horrible than losing one’s vision,” he said. Small as those ocular organs, they are closely linked to every single system of human body. Prof. Wang also hoped that ophthalmologists could extend their research from pure ophthalmology to integrative medicine, continue caring for eyes and push forward the development of ophthalmology. 

 

 

Director Sun of the Department of S&T for Social Development gave a comprehensive and detailed interpretation on the 13th five-year policies for science and technology innovation, including the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Science and Technology Innovation, the 13th Five-Year Plan for Social Science and Technology Innovation, the 13th Five-Year Special Plan for Medical Science and Technology Innovation and the 13th Five-Year Plan for Science and Technology. She expressed that since the launch of the 13th Five-Year Plan, innovation had become a keyword and been integrated into the national scientific and technological development fund, strategic research and resource allocation. She hoped that the basic ophthalmological research could be innovated and therefore clinical research could turn into productivity. 

 

 

Subsequently, the Symposium was divided into five sections, revolving around hot issues like the current development strategies for ophthalmology, targeted therapies for common eye diseases likely to cause blindness, the application of stem cells in ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology and translational medicine. During the Symposium, over 100 experts made heated discussions pertinent to the topics. 

Section One: Development of Ophthalmology under the National S&T Strategy 

  

Academician Zhou Qi is giving a presentation on Stem Cells: Basics and Clinical Translation 

  

Academician Hongyi Zhou is giving a presentation on Personalized Medicine in the Genome Era 

  

Academician Lin Chen is giving a presentation on Ophthalmology and Large-scale Primary Visual Cognition Basic Unit 

  

Academician Lixin Xie is giving a presentation on Prospect for Application of Stem Cells in Ophthalmology (Cornea) 

Section Two: Precision Medicine for Common Eye Diseases Likely to Cause Blindness 

  

Ningli Wang is giving a presentation on Relationship between Evidence-based Medicine and Precision Medicine 

  

Zhenglin Yang is giving a presentation on Research on Precision Medicine for Severe Rare Diseases Likely to Cause Blindness 

  

Jia Qu is giving a presentation on Precision Medicine for Prevention and Treatment of Myopia 

  

Wenbin Wei is giving a presentation on Intraocular Tumor and Precision Medicine 

  

Xiaodong Kong is giving a presentation on Eye Aging and Age-related Ocular Fundus Diseases 

  

Peiquan Zhao is giving a presentation on Precision Medicine for Pediatric Retinal Diseases 

  

Mingzhi Zhang is giving a presentation on Precision Medicine and Cataract Surgery 

  

Chen Zhao is giving a presentation on Application of Precision Medicine in Diagnosis of Genetic Eye Diseases 

  

Jing Liu is giving a presentation on Characteristics of TCM Therapy for Macular Edema 

Section Three: Advanced Technology in the Treatment of Eye Diseases 

  

Ke Yao is giving a presentation on Exploration: From Basic Ophthalmic Research to Clinical Use 

  

Jian Ge is giving a presentation on Prospect for Clinical Use of Functional Imaging of the Retina 

  

Mingwei Zhao is giving a presentation on Application of Translational Medicine in Ophthalmology and Relevant Reflection 

  

Mingchang Zhang is giving a presentation on The History and Future of Tissue-engineered Cornea 

Section Four: Application of Stem Cells in Ophthalmology 

  

Yizhi Liu is giving a presentation on Application of Stem Cells in Ophthalmic Treatment 

  

Zhengqin Yin is giving a presentation on Stem Cell Therapy Strategies for Eye Diseases 

  

Xianqun Fan is giving a presentation on Stem Cells and Tissue Repair 

  

Huiping Yuan is giving a presentation on Research on Repair of Retinal Injury Caused by Acute Ocular Hypertension with Homing of BMSC Subsets 

  

Xinyi Wu is giving a presentation on Research on Induced Differentiation of Stem Cells of Different Origins into Retinal Endothelial-like Cells 

  

Qinghuai Liu is giving a presentation on Clinical Research on Fetal Retinal Pigment Epithelium Transplantation in Retinal Degeneration Replacement Therapy 

  

Guoxing Xu is giving a presentation on Influence of Genetically-modified BMSCs on Retinal Function. 

  

Xiaorong Li is giving a presentation on Applied Research on Exosomes (origin of Mesenchymal Stem Cells) in Eye Diseases 

Section Five: Ophthalmology and Neuroscience 

  

Chunqiao Liu is giving a presentation on Outlook for Visual Pathway Neurogenesis and Neuroscience 

  

Yuansheng Yuan is giving a presentation on Big Data of Glaucoma 

  

Liu Yang is giving a presentation on Discussion on the Effect and Intervention of Inflammation in Photoreceptor Cell Injury 

  

Hong Zhang is giving a presentation on Primary Research on Central Pathogenesis of Glaucoma 

  

Longqian Liu is giving a presentation on Brain Mechanism of Vision in Light of Weak Neural Mechanism