Eye Translational Research Unit - Kolko group

EyeTRU enjoying an exiting @EVER_connect conference. #EyeTRU #26thEVERcongress #neverstoplearning #research

Paper on the toxic and inflammatory effect of benzalkonium chloride on conjunctival goblet cells is now available with open access in Journal of Optometry: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #eyeTRU #ophtalmology #gobletcell #gobletstudies #eyeresearch #patientsinfocus

This week we were pleased to have Ali Tafreshi visiting from @TopconHealthcare at our weekly #EyeTRU group meeting. Ali was in Copenhagen in connection with our FOREVER Symposium on Wednesday 27 September. #EyeTRU #FOREVER #TOPCONhealthcare #TOPCON #FOREVERSYMPOSIUM

We are excited & proud to share #EyeTRU group leader @KolkoMiriam's new Lancet paper "Glaucoma: now and beyond", which has just become available online. Together with Hari Jayaram, David Friedman & Gus Gazzard, Miriam has prepared this seminar: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Glaucoma

On Sunday 3 September, we had the pleasure of hosting our annual research seminar in the beautiful surroundings of Gunderslevholm Gods. We're already looking forward to many exciting months until next year's seminar. Read more here: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"The molecular aspect of anti-glaucomatous eye drops - are we harming our patients?" @AnneNagstrup & @KolkoMiriam just published a review on all the molekyler aspects of anti-glaucomatous eye drops and what to be aware of regarding tolerability. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #EyeTRU

Md @AnneNagstrup is currently visiting Massachusetts general hospital in Boston, US to investigate calcium pathways in goblet cells. #EyeTRU #eyeresearch #gobletcells #Visitabroad #dkforsk #dksund

Please meet Katrine Mikha, our newest #EyeTRU member. Welcome Katrine! #UCPH #dksund #dkforsk #Kolkogroup

EyeTRU members @AnneNagstrup and @KolkoMiriam are proud to be part of this nice collaboration with #TFOS. Thank you David Sullivan for making this possible. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37302545/ #Glaucoma #ocularsurface #ocularsurfacediseace #eyehealth #TFOS #Ophthalmology

EyeTRU group leader @KolkoMiriam was presenting #ProjectFOREVER at the @WorldGlaucoma Association Congress. It was very well received and the #FOREVER database is expanding rapidly due to the unique collaboration with Synoptik Danmark. #eyeTRU #dksund #dkforsk #synoptik #WGA

EyeTRU member @AnneNagstrup presenting on the damaging effect of preservatives on the ocular surface at the @WorldGlaucoma Congress in Rome, Italy. #WGC2023 #Glaucoma #Ophthalmology #EyeTRU

EyeTRU member Josefine Freiberg is visiting @KingstonUni, UK, as part of her #PhD. Her research focuses on automated image analysis of retinal images from the #FOREVER population. #retinalimages #eyeresearch #studyabroas #EyeTRU #dkforsk #dksund

Congratulations to #EyeTRU member Umalbaninn Alnoor (Al Moussawi) who successfully defended her thesis project about the survival and function of conjunctival goblet cells. Keep up the excellent work and we can’t wait to follow your exciting path. #thesisproject #dkforsk #dksund

Tune in tomorrow Tuesday, June 20, for this #TGF webinar with #EyeTRU group leader @KolkoMiriam and Gustavo De Moraes, MD, PhD, MPH. Register here: bit.ly/3OaIzfK #TheGlaucomaFoundation #Glaucoma #patientinfocus #eyeresearch

Last month PhD students @ZaynabMouhammad and Mariana García did a research stay at Karolinska Institutet with @pete_the_teapot and James Tribble. Both are working on basic research projects. We can't wait to see the results of their experiments. #EyeTRU #research #projects #phd

Today #EyeTRU members Simone Ahrensberg, Arevak Saruhanian and @Pernille_MD_H is attending the Fight for Sight, Denmark's annual grant recipient ceremoni. All three have received research funding for respectively research projects and ph.d project. Congratulations to them all.

Good news for the many patients with Glaucoma. @KolkoMiriam and Øjenforeningen has through dialogue with the Danish Medicines Agency & research made it prohibited to replace the toxic preservative, BAK, in eye drops where the original does not contain BAK. ugeskriftet.dk/nyhed/nu-kan-p…

Laboratory technician Jeff Bair visiting #EyeTRU from Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary in Boston, USA, as part of our goblet cell collaborations. #kolkogroup #dksund #dkforsk @UCPH_health

At the Glaucoma Foundation’s patient seminar Wednesday June 22 #eyeTRU group leader @KolkoMiriam will be giving a lecture. To participate, register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #TheGlaucomaFoundation #tgf #patientcare #dksund #dkforsk #eyeresearch #patientinfocus

We are very pleased to share that the first paper from #ProjectFOREVER about the entire project design has been published! We encourage you to read about the FOREVER design and the new Danish Eye and Vision Cohort: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ao… Josefine Freiberg @JRovelt @KolkoMiriam