New Horizons in Ocular Surface Biology
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 740
Special Issue Editors
Interests: holistic understanding of corneal homoeostasis; new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of ocular surface disorders; new approaches to minimizing ocular drug side effects
Interests: basic research on cytokines, receptors and ocular and body fluids; understanding the processes of wounding, wound healing and their controllability; emphasizing the need to understand the dynamics of biological processes; the application of insights to clinics, especially surgery
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Progress is currently being made to solve the enigma of ocular surface homeostasis and its disruption. Recent medical and scientific progress may lead to a fundamental paradigm shift in the field. The non-profit CORONIS FOUNDATION has established the Ophthalmic Fiction Workshop as a platform for the interdisciplinary discussion of new ideas and concepts in their early stages. This provides scientists with a unique opportunity to sharpen and communicate their ideas, and to develop them to a stage where they are ready for publication in a peer reviewed journal. Our next workshop, a Zoom meeting of approximately 15 scientists on ‘New Horizons in Ocular Surface Biology’, is scheduled for 22 April 2023. After the workshop, each participant is encouraged to submit a manuscript for publication in a Special Issue of Biology entitled ‘New Horizons in Ocular Surface Biology’. This Special Issue will open the gate to future advances in the field and become a platform for discussion among ophthalmologists and scientists involved in ocular surface research.
Dear Colleagues,
Since 2017, the CORONIS FOUNDATION has been organizing Ophthalmic Fiction Workshops. These workshops are a platform for new ideas to be presented by a small invited group of open minded, multidisciplinary, international experts. We encourage ‘thinking outside the box’ and intend to support new ideas and concepts on their path to general recognition.
We respect the intellectual ownership of the ideas presented and provide a platform for open discussion and support. In the past, we left it to individual participants to publish their ideas. However, we later recognized that it may be challenging to publish novel ideas and concepts in peer-reviewed journals with high impact factors. Moreover, the offer from Biology (IF 5.168) to publish the results of our workshop in a Special Issue of this journal is likely to increase the visibility of each article.
Our Ophthalmic Fiction Workshop is scheduled as a Zoom meeting for 22 April 2023. As a special feature, this symposium will emphasize the biological aspects of ocular surface pathophysiology. Together with all participants, we will try to develop a holistic view of ocular surface homeostasis and its disturbances.
At your earliest convenience, we cordially invite you to provide an abstract of the ideas, concepts, and hypotheses that you would like to present and discuss during our workshop.
Of the concepts we receive, we will select 15 and invite their authors to our workshop.
Dr. Wolfgang G.K. Müller-Lierheim
Dr. Gysbert-Botho van Setten
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ocular surface biology and disease
- dry eye
- allergic keratoconjunctivitis
- infection
- corneal wound healing
- epithelial barrier
- glycocalyx
- corneal nerves
- corneal innate immune system
- hyaluronan
- extracellular matrix
- inflammation
