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

Recent News

© 2019 Aniridia-net.eu – University of Cologne – Webdesign by Effect Group Ltd.

Core Group

Core Group

Action Chair - Prof. Neil LAGALI

Affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Faculy of Medicine, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, (SWEDEN)
Website: https://liu.se/en/research/cornea-research
Email: coordination@aniridia-net.eu

Participation in other COST actions:

Action Vice Chair and Grant Holder Scientific Representative - Prof Claus CURSIEFEN

Affiliation: Zentrum für Augenheilkunde – Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Köln – University of Cologne. Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Köln (GERMANY)
Website: http://augenklinik.uk-koeln.de
Research group website: http://www.for2240.de/
Email: management@aniridia-net.eu

Participating in other COST Actions:

Administrative Coordinator - Esther ENGEL

Affiliation: University of Cologne/University Hospital Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne
Email: esther.engel@uk-koeln.de
Phone: +0221 / 478-32845

WG 1 Clinical Guidelines Leader - Prof Dominique BREMOND-GIGNAC

Affiliation 1: University Hospital Necker Enfants Malades, APHP. 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris (FRANCE)
Affiliation 2: Clinical Research Center CLAIROP n°48 – INSERM Unit UMRS1138, Team 17.
Affiliation 3: Paris V René Descartes University
Email: wg1@aniridia-net.eu

WG 2 Clinical and Cohort Studies Leader - Dr Vito ROMANO

Affiliation & Address: University of Brescia / University of Liverpool (Honorary)

Piazza del Mercato, 15,

25121 Brescia BS (ITALY)

Email: vito.romano@unibs.it

Phone: +(39) 030 3995847

WG 3 Stem cells and Regenerative Medicine Leader - Dr Stefano FERRARI

Affiliation & Address: Fondazione Banca degli Occhi del Veneto (The Veneto Eye Bank Foundation)
Via Paccagnella 11. c/o Padiglione Giovanni Rama
30174 Venice (ITALY)
Website: https://www.fbov.org/
Research group website: https://research.fbov.org/
Email: stefano.ferrari@fbov.it

 

Participating in other COST Actions:

WG 4 Transplantation, Inflammation and Immunity - Dr Davide BORRONI

Affiliation & Address: RSU Riga Stradins University
Dzierciema iela 11
Latvia
Riga
Email: info.borroni@gmail.com

WG 5 Aniridia models for collaborative research Leader - Prof Daniel ABERDAM

Affiliation: INSERM U976, Hôpital Saint-Louis. Avenue Claude Vellefaux 1, Pavillon Bazin, 75475 Paris Cedex 10 (FRANCE)
Website: https://skinstemdev.simdif.com/
Email: daniel.aberdam@inserm.fr

Participating in other COST Actions:

WG 6 Patient-driven research - Prof Christina GRUPCHEVA

Affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical University – Varna (BULGARIA)
Website: http://mu-varna.bg/EN/AboutUs/Medicine/Pages/Christina-Nikolova-Grupcheva.aspx
Email: wg6@aniridia-net.eu

Participating in other COST Actions:

Science Communication Manager - Dr Juliana MARTÍNEZ-ATIENZA

SERMES CRO. C/Rufino Gonzaléz, 14Escalera 1ª – 2º Dcha 28037 Madrid (SPAIN)
Website: https://www.sermescro.com/
Email: juliana_martinez@sermescro.com

STSM Coordinator - Prof. Thomas RITTER

Affiliation: Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI), School of Medicine – College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Biomedical Sciences | BSB 1-022 Newcastle Road, National University of Ireland Galway. Galway H91 W2TY (IRELAND)
E-mail: thomas.ritter@nuigalway.ie
Website: http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/thomasritter/

Participating in other COST Actions:

Training Coordinator - Dr Rozaliya HRISTOVA

Affiliation: Medical University Sofia, University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia (BULGARIA)
E-mail: alleta@abv.bg
Website: http://www.mu-sofia.bg/en/

ITC Conference Manager - Prof Sara XAPELLI

Affiliation: Instituto de Farmacologia e Neurociências and Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa (PORTUGAL)
Website: https://imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt/pt/
E-Mail: sxapelli@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Participating in other COST Actions: