Regenerative medicine opens new frontiers in treatment of AMD

VIENNA — Success with the first autologous transplantation of iPS-RPE sheets opens a new frontier in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration.Masayo Takahashi, MD, PhD, keynote lecturer at the meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmology, approached the concept of stem cells at the Salk Institute in 1995 and pioneered research on stem cell transplantation into the retina.

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