Kreissig Award Lecture highlights AMD research milestones

LONDON — The 2014 Kreissig Award was presented to Johanna M. Seddon, MD, ScM, at the Euretina meeting here for her key contributions to research on the etiology, risk factors and mechanisms of age-related macular degeneration.Very little was known 20 years ago when Seddon began her research on nutrition and other modifiable, environmental risk factors potentially correlated with the disease. In order to dissect the genetic and environmental components of the disease, she launched a large study that surveyed more than 12,000 twins in the U.S.