EUROPEAN GLAUCOMA RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ACCELERATING THE APPROACH TO ADVANCED GLAUCOMA
Glaucoma is the most common age-related neurodegenerative eye disease in Western society and one of the four major eye diseases causing blindness. Unfortunately, current treatments can only slow the deterioration but do not halt or reverse the process. Despite the efforts of the early detection and treatment of the disease, currently, approximately 15% of all glaucoma patients in the EU still become bilaterally blind.
Our European MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE Doctoral Network (DN) EGRET-AAA (‘European Glaucoma REsearch Training program for Accelerating the Approach to Advanced Glaucoma‘) will focus specifically on finding solutions for those patients suffering from advanced glaucoma. We aim to bring revolutionary therapies for protecting and restoring vision in patients with advanced glaucoma a significant step closer to clinical deployment.
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Register for the EGRET-AAA Dissemination Conference in Florence, Italy!
Please join us for our final dissemination conference “Towards Regaining Vision and Functioning in Advanced Glaucoma”, on October 14th, 2026, in Florence, IT. We are organising this conference as a satellite event to the European association for Vision and Eye...
First EGRET-AAA paper is out!
The first EGRET-AAA paper has been published! DC Lloyd Plumart published his paper on along-tract profiling to visualize white matter changes in the brain using diffusion MRI. In this work, Plumart and colleagues present a method that can quantify and visualize...
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OUR MISSION
We want to bring revolutionary therapies for protecting and restoring vision in patients with advanced glaucoma a significant step closer to clinical deployment.
OUR PROJECTS
Joint-doctorates can work on 15 project available in academia, at medical institutes and high-tech companies in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Norway
OUR TRAINING
We offer our joint-doctorates a 3-years multidisciplinary PhD training consisting of several secondments and high-level training courses and workshops throughout Europe
OUR CONSORTIUM
EGRET-AAA consists of 24 members amongst which world-class experts in ophthalmology, ophthalmogenetics, molecular biology, visual neuroscience, and technology
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Tree planting Initiative
Our tree planting initiative aims to enhance environmental considerations, by accounting for any travel DC’s take as a result of work. We already follow MSCA Green Charter rules, however, these rules only promote green transport options, but don’t account for carbon footprint produced. In our initiative, we try to directly offset our collective carbon footprint by planting an amount of trees based on distance and modes of transport.
See for information: https://onetreeplanted.org/
