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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please join us for our next Vaegan seminar to be given by Dr Vinay Aakalu (University of Illinois Chicago - UIC). His talk is entitled: "Development of New Ocular Surface Disease Therapies and Receptor Deconvolution".</span><span> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Title:</b> Development of New Ocular Surface Disease Therapies and Receptor Deconvolution</span></p>
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<div><b>Speaker:</b> Dr Vinay Aakalu (University of Illinois Chicago - UIC) <br>
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<div><b>Time/Date:</b> 1-2pm Friday 16 July 2021 (<b>AEST</b>) <br>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b> Ocular surface diseases and injuries are important public health concerns that can reduce vision and quality of life. Developing new approaches to these conditions is critical to advancing patient care. In this presentation, peptide
based strategies for treating ocular surface inflammatory conditions and epithelial injuries will be discussed. In addition, efforts to understand the mechanisms of action of these new therapies will be described.</div>
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<b>Bio: </b>Dr. Aakalu is a fellowship-trained, oculofacial plastic surgeon and clinician-scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). At UIC, Dr. Aakalu directs a multi-specialty
thyroid eye disease clinic and a drug development accelerator [Illinois Center for Ophthalmic Drug and Diagnostic Development (ICOD3)]. Work in the Aakalu laboratory is focused on developing new therapeutics for ocular surface diseases and other conditions.
The group studies both new drugs and regenerative medicine based innovations.
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