Author name: Niall Slowey

Speakers at Euretina Session 5 presented next generation approaches to drug delivery. Opening the session, co-chair Dr. Grazia Pertile (Italy) said: “We are living in a very exciting time. We hope that we will be able to treat most of the retinal conditions in the future, including genetic diseases, but we also feel the burden of frequent injections. Today we are going to explore what is possible now and what will be possible beyond vitreoretinal injection.

2025 marked the tenth year of the EuroVeRsion International surgical video case contest. Entrants into the competition are nominated by a senior vitreoretinal surgeon, must be <40 years of age, in the first three years of their career, and have participated in the case featured in their 3-minute video.

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in retinal surgery have been discussed in various contexts by numerous speakers throughout EURETINA 2025. Attendees at the last Euretina Session on Friday afternoon, however, heard a series of talks dedicated entirely to AI.

Introducing the session on new treatments in ocular oncology, co-chair Dr Jens Kiilgard (Denmark) noted that at the start of his career in ophthalmology, enucleation or radiation were the only therapeutic options for patients with ocular tumours. “As we will hear today, there has been a revolution of treatment for both primary and systemic disease,” he said.

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Following directly after EURETINA session 1, the second EURETINA session of EURETINA 2025 continued with a focus on age-related macular degeneration (AMD) but shifted to the topic of neovascular disease. 

EURETINA delegates who attended the Retinal Detachment Teaching Course represent participants in the 140th iteration of this programme that was first organized by Professor Ingrid Kreissig in 1991.