Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in Ophthalmology

Andreas Stahl, MD, FEBO, graduated in Medicine from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2005. He spent the years 2008-2010 as a Research Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, thanks to a DFG fellowship grant. Since 2011, Dr. Stahl has been Head of the Angiogenesis Research Group at the University Eye Hospital Freiburg, investigating the underlying mechanisms of angioproliferative retinal diseases. Clinically, Dr. Stahl works as a retinal surgeon attending to patients with a broad variety of retinal disorders ranging from retinopathy of prematurity to ischemic retinopathies and age-related maculopathy. Dr. Stahl has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Innovative Research Award from the German Ophthalmic Society. He is a reviewer for many journals and author of more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as several book chapters.

• Retinal Vascular Development.- Retinopathy of Prematurity.- Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Treatment in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Outcomes and Outcome Predictors.- AREDS Supplementation and the Progression Towards Neovascular Exudative AMD.- VEGF-Inhibition in Macular Telangiectasia Type 2.- Diabetic Retinopathy.- Retinal Vein Occlusion.- Pharmacokinetics of Intravitreally Applied VEGF Inhibitors.- Neovascular Glaucoma.- Corneal Neovascular Diseases.- Anti‐Angiogenic Gene Therapy - Basic Science and Challenges for Translation into the Clinic.