2025
| De Laey EVER Keynote Lecture | Dan Milea | Can algorithms automatically detect brain diseases in the retinas? |
| Past President Lecture | Andrzej Grzybowski | AI in Ophthalmology: between known and unknown unknowns |
| Missoten EVER Keynote Lecture | Gordon Plant | 40 years with the Occipital Lobe |
| Soubrane EVER Keynote Lecture | Kapil Bharti | Macular iPSC derived RPE reproduces regional sensitivity to AMD |
| Special Recognition EVER Keynote Lecture | Przemyslaw Sapieha | Therapeutic vascular remodelling in diabetic retinal disease: On Semaphorins and Cellular Senescence |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture | John Forrester | Infection Control in the CNS |
| ACTA Lecture | Steffen Heegaard | Current developments in the diagnosis and therapy of ocular surface neoplasias |
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Bart Leroy | Therapies for Inherited Retinal Diseases – An Undulating Road |
| European Academy of Ophthalmology Lecture | Eberhart Zrenner | Using ciliary muscle potentials for controlling the refractive state of tunable lenses to restore accommodation in presbyopia |
2024
| De Laey EVER Keynote Lecture | Napoleone Ferrara | New Insights in the Regulation of Ocular Angiogenesis by VEGF and other mediators: Therapeutic Implications |
| Past President Lecture | Nora Szentmary | Aniridia associated keratopathy – molecular and clinical mechanisms leading to keratopathy development |
| ACTA Lecture | John Barbur | Methods for early detection of selective loss of visual function in diseases of the retina |
| Missoten EVER Keynote Lecture | Francesca Cordeiro | Translational experiences in ophthalmology |
| Soubrane EVER Keynote Lecture | Jens Kiilgaard | Towards personalized medicine in uveal melanoma. |
| Special Recognition EVER Keynote Lecture | José Carlos Pastor Jimeno | translational research in Ophthalmology. Some examples. |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture | Andrzej Grzybowski | 100 years of Acta Ophthalmologica: recipe for success |
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Leopold Schmetterer | The future of ocular imaging: Functional OCT versus Deep Learning |
2023
| Keynote 1 De Laey | Jose-Alain SAHEL | Cone-directed strategies in Retinal Degenerations |
| Keynote 2 Soubrane | Isabelle AUDO | Soubrane lecture |
| Past President Lecture | Rafael I. BARRAQUER | Keratoconus: past, present and future |
| Keynote 3 Missoten | Yvonne OU | Retinal circuit disassembly, plasticity, and repair in glaucoma |
| Special Recognition Lecture | Marcela VOTRUBA | Mitochondria and vision- a life in mitochondria always on the move |
| EverActa Lecture | Hannu UUSITALO | Why we are doing this? |
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Frank SCHAEFFEL | Functional changes in the myopic retina compromize emmetropization |
| EO Heritage Lecture | Marie-José TASSIGNON | The anatomy of the anterior interface revisited |
| Past President Lecture | Manuel VIDAL SANZ | Idiosyncratic responses of RGCs to injury and protection |
2022
| EverActa Lecture | Einar STEFANSSON | Eye drops for retinal disease |
| European Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Veronica VAN HEYNINGEN | Eye genes: looking forward, glancing back |
| Past President Lecture | Rafael I. BARRAQUER | Keratoconus: past, present and future |
| Ever Keynote lecture | Brigitte Röder | Brain mechanism of sight recovery |
| Past President Lecture | Kai KAARNIRANTA | Proteostasis is age-related macular degeneration |
| Ever Keynote lecture | Adriana DI POLO | Novel insights into neuronal and vascular damage glaucoma |
| Ever Keynote lecture | Berthold SEITZ | Corneal transplantation - When and how? |
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Carlo RIVOLTA | Genetic dynamics and global clinical features of inherited retinal diseases |
| Past President Lecture | Dominique Bremond-Gignac | What can we learn from Rare Eye Diseases |
2019
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Andrew LOTERY | Understanding AMD from lab and clinical studies |
| EVER Lecture by Past-President | Alain BRON | Lipids and the eye, beyond fat |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Martine IAGER | Immunology and the elder eye |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture | Gisele SOUBRANE | Contribution of French ophthalmologists |
| KEYNOTE | Peter A. CAMPOCHIARO | Mechanism of cone cells death in retinitis pigmentosa |
| KEYNOTE | Pete COFFEY | The London Project to cure blindness at 10 years: have we found a cure? |
| KEYNOTE | Sarah COUPLAND | Molecular diagnostics and ophthalmic pathology: where are we up to? |
2018
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Francesca M CORDEIRO | DARC development and translation |
| EVER Lecture by Past-President |
Andrew DICK |
Ocular inflammation |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Gisèle SOUBRANE |
OCT-A all what we need? |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Jean-Jacques DE LAEY | A brief history of cataract surgery |
| KEYNOTE | Rajendra S APTE |
An eye on aging and disease |
| KEYNOTE | Leonord LEVIN | The Axon is dead: long live the Axon! |
| KEYNOTE | Christine CURCIO | Microarchitecture and timeline of geographic atrophy: the x,y,z,t of AMD |
2017
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Hendrik SCHOLL |
Emerging therapies for retinal and macular dystrophies |
| EVER Lecture by Past-President |
Aki KAWASAKI |
The Pupil: A marker of visual and non-visual light sensitivity |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Leopold SCHMETTERER |
Ocular imaging: What we see and what we would like to see |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Alan BIRD | Evolution of our understanding and management of monogenetic retinal disorders |
| KEYNOTE | Carol SHIELDS |
Uveal melanoma: millimeters, personalized prognosis, and new therapies |
| KEYNOTE | Shomi BHATTACHARYA | The genetics revolution as seen through the eye |
| KEYNOTE | Caroline KLAVER | Why do eyes become myopic? |
2016
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Marie-José TASSIGNON |
The cataract surgeon and the anterior interface |
| EVER Past-President Lecture | Bart LEROY |
Lessons from the Fascinating World of Bestrophinopathies |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | John GREENWOOD |
The pathogenic role of LRG1 in ocular neovascularisation: From discovery to targeted therapy |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Luc MISSOTTEN | Magnificat |
| KEYNOTE | Robert MACLAREN |
Developing new treatments for inherited retinal degenerations |
| KEYNOTE | Shigeru KINOSHITA | Medical Science and Clinical Research in Corneal Regenerative Medicine |
| KEYNOTE | Marcela VOTRUBA | OPA1 gene and mitochondrial optic neuropathy: disease mechanisms and potential therapies |
2015
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Peter WIEDEMANN |
Degenerative myopia and its treatment |
| EVER Past-President Lecture | Constantin POURNARAS |
Retinal Vein Occlusions: From pathophysiological mechanism to clinical therapeutical issues |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Russell FOSTER |
Regulating the body clock - The unrecognised role of the eye |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Pinar AYDIN O'DWYER |
Visual impairment in opera characters |
| KEYNOTE | Brenda GALLIE |
Rare retinoblastoma: a goldmine for discovery of fundamental principles of biology and healthcare |
| KEYNOTE | Reza DANA |
Translational applications in corneal and ocular surface diseases |
| KEYNOTE | Bita ESMAELI |
Multidisciplinary treatments for malignant eyelid tumors: surgical and non-surgical options, sentinel lymph node biopsy and surveillance |
2014
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Bahram BODAGHI |
Revisiting infectious triggers of chronic intraocular immunity |
| EVER Past-President Lecture | Philippe KESTELYN |
AIDS thirty years later, lessons from a pandemic |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Neville OSBORNE |
Pathogenesis of glaucoma in relation to variable ganglion cell death and neuroprotection |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Daniel SCHORDERET |
Eye and genes: the new ophthalmology |
| KEYNOTE | Austin ROORDA |
Testing vision: one cone at a time |
| KEYNOTE | David SULLIVAN |
New therapeutic approaches and challenges for the treatment of dry eye disease |
| KEYNOTE | Jay NEITZ |
Lessons learned from gene therapy for color blindness in primates |
2013
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Neville OSBORNE | The neuroscience of glaucoma in relation to the possibility for neuroprotection |
| EVER Past-President Lecture | Leopold SCHMETTERER | Advances in OCT imaging |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Tero KIVELÄ | Telomere maintenance and retinal vascularisation |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Andrzej GRZYBOWSKI |
Major Central European’s contributions to international ophthalmology |
| KEYNOTE | Balwantray CHAUHAN | Why what you have been taught about the optic disc may not be entirely true |
| KEYNOTE | Alfredo SADUN | Why is the optic nerve the canary in the coal mine of mitochondrial diseases? |
| KEYNOTE | Nicholas BAZAN | Molecular sensors for the decoding of homeostasis disruptions in the retinal pigment epithelium: towards the understanding of retinal degenerative diseases |
2012
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | George L. SPAETH | Priorities of Ophthalmic Research |
| EVER Lecture | Lene MARTIN | Visual fields for Ever - and more |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Anders HEIJL | The changing roles of perimetry and perimeters in glaucoma management |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Thierry ZEYEN |
Ophthalmology: a philatelic view |
| KEYNOTE | Joan MILLER | New treatments for age related macular degeneration |
| KEYNOTE | Rando ALLIKMETS | Genetics and treatment of Stargardt disease |
| KEYNOTE | Jayakrishna AMBATI | Diced Alu: Canning the blinding inflammasome |
2011
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Andrew DICK | Road to fulfillment (not perdition): taming immune response to restore vision |
| EVER Lecture | Graham HOLDER | Spot the difference! The electrophysiological differentiation of retinal fleck and spot disorders |
| EVER-Acta Lecture | Per SODERBERG | Clouding lens, swap or stop? |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Ioannis PALLIKARIS |
The development of microkeratomes from the very early ages, with handmade and mechanical systems, until the fempto - laser technology today |
| KEYNOTE | Beatrice COCHENER | Ocular surface and refractive surgery |
| KEYNOTE | Elias TRABOULSI | Clinical and molecular genetic aspects of optic nerve hypoplasia |
2010
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Peng KHAW | From repair to regeneration - from laboratory discovery to clinic advance |
| EVER Lecture | Charles RIVA | The regulation of retinal blood flow in the healthy and diseased eye |
| Acta Lecture | Wolfgang DREXLER | Where is retinal OCT heading |
| KEYNOTE | David TAYLOR | The optic nerve, mitochondria, age, energy, apoptosis and vision |
| KEYNOTE | Alan C BIRD | Cell loss in geographic atrophy |
| KEYNOTE | Stefan SEREGARD | Uveal melanoma: neither fish nor fowl? |
2009
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Justine SMITH | Role of the vascular endothelial cell in uveitis |
| EVER Lecture | Harminder S DUA | Corneal surface regeneration: epithelial sheets to epithelial crypts |
| Acta Lecture | Jost JONAS | From Intravitreal Cell-Encoated Drug Therapy to Low-(Brain-)Pressure-Glaucoma |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Balder P. GLOOR | Hans Goldmann (1899-1991) - the man who coined the daily practice of ophthalmology worldwide during half a century until today |
| KEYNOTE | Michael GILMORE | Pathogen Interactions in the Pathogenesis of Endophthalmitis |
| KEYNOTE | Sarah COUPLAND | Unravelling the mysteries of ocular lymphomas |
| KEYNOTE | Kyoko OHNO-MATSUI | Age-related macular degeneration; an Alzheimer's disease in the eye? |
2008
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | Dbala BALASUBRAMANIAN | Functional analysis of mutants of the optineurin gene, associated with some forms of glaucoma |
| EVER Lecture | Uwe PLEYER | The taming of the shrew or corneal transplantation: past, present and future |
| AER Lecture | Gijs VRENSEN | Much ado about nothing |
| ACTA Lecture | Fridbert JONASSON | Unraveling the genetics of exfoliation glaucoma |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
Marko HAWLINA | Anton Banko, the Slovenian inventor behind the success of Charles Kelman |
| KEYNOTE | Gregory HAGEMAN | A new era for age-related macular degeneration: insights pertaining to a key role for the complement system |
| KEYNOTE | Manabu MOCHIZUKI | Regional immunity of the eye: T lymphocytes and ocular pigment epitherial cells |
| KEYNOTE | Peter LAIBSON | Recognition and treatment of herpes simplex keratitis |
2007
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | ZRENNER Eberhart | Active subretinal Implants in seven blind patients: Outcome of a pilot study and further developments |
| EVER Lecture | KIVELä Tero | Can uveal melanoma be conquered? |
| AER Lecture | EHLERS Niels | On considerations of the corneal thickness |
| ACTA Lecture | La COUR Morten | The retinal pigment epithelium, friend or foe? |
| European Ophthalmic Heritage Lecture |
DE LAEY Jean-Jacques | From Helmholtz to the scanning laser ophthalmoscope - 150 years ophthalmoscopy |
| KEYNOTE | RAO Gullapali | Delivery of eye care in developing countries - Role of research |
| KEYNOTE | JAGER Martine | Antigen-presenting cells and the eye |
| KEYNOTE | HOLZ Frank | New perspectives in retinal imaging: fundus autofluorescence and age-related macular degeneration |
2006
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | RAO Narcing | Photoreceptor Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress in Experimental Uveitis |
| EVER Lecture | GALLOWAY Nic | The Evolution of Electrical Responses from the Eye |
| AER Lecture | DE CLERCQ Erik | Antivirals for viral eye infections |
| ACTA Lecture | SIEVING Paul | The Interplay of Clinical and Basic Knowledge in X-linked Retinoschisis |
| KEYNOTE | MOORE Tony | Cone and cone rod dystrophies, genotype, phenotype and disease mechanisms |
| KEYNOTE | ZHAO Jialiang | Advance of Ophthalmology in China and the Way to International Ophthalmology |
| KEYNOTE | REME Charlotte | Light damage and retinal degenerations: a model that sometimes tells the truth |
2005
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | FORRESTER John | The Spark of Life? A Fundamental Role for Electric Fields in Guiding Cell Behaviour |
| EVER Lecture | SODERBERG Per | A little bit of light on the lens |
| AER Lecture | BARRAQUER Joaquin | Evolution of Cataract Surgery,Corneal Transplantation and Refractive Surgery |
| KEYNOTE | KINOSHITA Shigeru | Ocular surface regeneration: Present and Future |
| KEYNOTE | BEEBE David | The Cause and Prevention of Nuclear Cataracts: Oxygen and the Vitreous Body |
| KEYNOTE | BAILEY Ian | Assessment of vision - Monitoring impairments and predicting functional abilities |
| KEYNOTE | KAUFMAN Paul | Medical Therapy of Glaucoma in the Future: From Cell Culture to Clinic |
2004
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | LUTJEN DRECOLL Elke | TGFß in the anterior eye segment: its significance for immuneprivilege and glaucoma |
| EVER Lecture | BRON Anthony | Of Puzzles and Paradoxes |
| AER Lecture | ZRENNER Eberhart | From gene to therapy: the long way to understand and cure retinal diseases |
| KEYNOTE | PFLUGFELDER Stephen | Mechanisms of corneal epithelial diseases in dry eye |
| KEYNOTE | WEST Sheila | Cataract at the Cross Roads: Increasing blindness, challenges for research |
| KEYNOTE | DELAMERE Nicholas | Astrocyte form and function: implications for glaucoma |
| KEYNOTE | CUNHA-VAZ Jose | Characterization of Diabetic Retinopathy Phenotypes. Perspectives for improved management |
2003
| Ophthalmic Research Lecture | SASAKI Kazuyuki | Age-related cataract in Asian and European populations: Racial differences and environmental influences |
| KEYNOTE | BLACK Graeme | Genetics of ocular development: a clearing vision |
2002
| AER Lecture | RUSKELL Gordon | The passage of nerves of the orbit: a reappraisal |
| EVER Lecture | DAMATO Bertil | Scientific obstacles to the detection of visual field loss |
| KEYNOTE | MILLER Neil | The Vigabatrin Story |
| KEYNOTE | CASPI Rachel | Experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis - A model system for ocular autoimmunity |
2001
| AER Lecture | MARAINI Giovanni | Cataract, ageing and genes |
| EVER Lecture | SPEKREIJSE Henk | (Insight) in our brain in action |
| KEYNOTE | VAN HEYNINGEN Veronica | Pax6, a Paradigm for Developmental Eye Disease |
| KEYNOTE | GROSSNIKLAUS Hans | Metastatic Uveal Melanoma. Clinical, Pathologic and Experimental Findings |
| KEYNOTE | EVINGER Craig | The Role of Learning in Blinking - A key to Vision |
2000
| AER Lecture | POULIQUEN YVES | Ultrastructural evidence for corneal transparency in humans and animals |
| EVER Lecture | SOUBRANE Gisele | Choroidal new vessels in high myopia |
| KEYNOTE | WIEDEMANN Peter | Angiogenesis in ocular disease |
| KEYNOTE | BARRAQUER Joaquin | Precision and safety in surgery for myopia and in cataract surgery |
1999
| AER Lecture | HOCKWIN Otto | Lens and Cataract Research at the doorstep of a new millenium |
| KEYNOTE | FARBER Debora | Genes causing Retinal degenerations: isolation, characterization and gene therapy |
| KEYNOTE | LATIES Alan | Viagra, one year later |