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PhD student Nelson Martins and Prof. Elfride De Baere recently visited the Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier in France to participate in a specialized training session organized by the ProgRET Marie-Curie Doctoral Network (https://www.progret.eu/). The program featured two complementary skills workshops — Excellence in Science Communication and Fundraising and Patient Engagement — as well as a research training focused on animal and cellular models for studying inherited retinal diseases (IRD). The training also included contributions from patients organizations and experts, including Science to the Point, Fighting Blindness Ireland, and Retina International. Special guest lectures were delivered by Julio Corral Serrano (Senior Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) and Nuna Naash (Professor, University of Houston). Nelson (and the other ProgRET fellows) have also visited Vasiliki Kalatzis' lab whose members shared insights on iPSC and iPSC-derived hRPE and retinal organoid cultures.
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