Aniridia is a devastating ocular disease requiring intensive eye care, social and community support from birth and throughout an individual’s lifetime.

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24 Jun 2020

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Summer is officially here, and that means that kids will have lots of time to get out the paints, pencils, and crayons and become little artists. To encourage this creativity, Aniridia-Net COST Action is inviting children with aniridia or their friends or relations to draw something creative relating to their experience with aniridia. The winning drawings will be used in the design of 2021 calendars and their little authors will get a printed copy of it! We hope that...

29 May 2020

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Last 14th & 15th may, during the Annual European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Drugs (ECRD), Ivana Kildsgaard, Swedish member of Aniridia Europe and active ANIRIDIA-NET participant, presented an online poster about CA18116 action’s goals and strategic plan towards improving clinical management and research in aniridia patients. Organised by EURORDIS and co-organised by Orphanet and the DIA, the ECRD conference is recognised globally as the largest, patient-led rare disease event in which collaborative dialogue, learning and conversation...

02 May 2020

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We are pleased to announce the upcoming thesis dissertation of one of ANIRIDIA-NET Action’s participants, Mrs. Hilde R. Pedersen from the University of South-Eastern Norway, which can be followed digitally via zoom using this link. Next May 12th at 13:00 pm CEST she will be presenting the key aspects and conclusions of this aniridia-focused investigative work titled «The Retina in Congenital Aniridia – Structural, Functional and Genetic Variability». Her thesis entails a thorough analysis of variations in genotype and retinal...

24 Mar 2020

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Prof. Neil Lagali, Chair of the COST Action ANIRIDIA-NET and researcher at the Linköping University (Sweden), has recently given an interesting live webinar for the Denmark Aniridia Patient Association during its Annual meeting held in Fredericia (Denmark) on the 7th of March, 2020. In his talk, Dr. Lagali presented key findings on the association of genetic alterations and the different clinical manifestations and progression rates observed in the disease, findings that may lay the foundations for a better clinical management...

23 Mar 2020

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Patients with congenital aniridia demonstrate altered tear osmolarity and inflammatory profile, as well as ocular surface damage that correlates with the development of meibomian gland dysfunction, keratopathy and dry eye disease. Patients also show foveal hypoplasia with diminished fundus autofluorescence intensity. These are the main conclusions of an aniridia-focused investigative work titled “Congenital Aniridia: Exploring Visual Disabling Manifestations in the Ocular Surface and Ocular Fundus through Clinical and Translational Approaches” that has involved the examination of up to 35 subjects...

23 Mar 2020

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This is our first ITC-CG Call for budget period 2019-2020. The selected conference must take place within the grant period (1stmay2019 to 15thmarch2020) and always within the Action’s lifetime. Find here further information and application guidelines for ANIRIDIA-NET Inclusiveness Target Countries Conference Grants. For more details, contact ANIRIDIA-NET ITC-CG Coordinator: Prof. Sara XAPELLI (sxapelli@medicina.ulisboa.pt). ...

19 Mar 2020

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AniridiaNet COST Actions #18116 members and participants got together for the Action’s 3rd MC/WG meeting taking place at the Molecular Medicine Institute in Lisbon, last 27th and 28th February 2020, coinciding with Rare Disease Day [www.rarediseaseday.org]. A highly successful meeting that gathered ophthalmologist, researchers, trainees, industry and patient’s organizations to discuss recent advancements and to foster collaborations for further growth and research in the field of aniridia. Culture and assessment of LSC, clinical multicentre studies, harmonized clinical protocols, aniridia pathophysiology,...

21 Feb 2020

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29 February 2020 will be the thirteenth International Rare Disease Day (www.rarediseaseday.org/) coordinated by EURORDIS. On and around this day hundreds of patient organisations from countries and regions all over the world will hold awareness-raising activities on rare diseases. Aniridia is a rare disease because it affects a small percentage of the population. Each rare disease may only affect a handful of people scattered around the world, however there are over 300 million people living with one or more of over 6,000 identified rare...

03 Feb 2020

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Elena Danielle, an MSc postgraduate at the Veneto Eye Bank Foundation (Italy) recently returned from a short scientific mission with the Skottman group at Tampere University (Finland) to share knowledge on primary limbal stem cell (LSC) culture and characterization techniques. During her visit, different LSC cultivation approaches were tested and compared to identify ABCG2-positive cells in primary limbal stem cells cultures obtained from fresh human as well as porcine corneas. These are the first experiments of a future research collaboration...

28 Jan 2020

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Just a few words to inform you about the upcoming European Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs taking place on 15-16th of May in Stockholm. We believe this is a great opportunity for dissemination activities of our COST action #CA18116, as well as to present any scientific achievements, clinical approaches or activities related with aniridia. Submission for posters is open till 10th of February. Be aware that Early Career Investigators from ITC countries** with a confirmed contribution (poster) to...