Speaker Biography

Frank G. Holz is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Bonn, Germany. His main research interests include the pathogenesis, biomarkers, endpoints and new therapies for macular and retinal diseases. He has a keen interest in innovative retinal imaging technologies and image analysis strategies. He was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), trained at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Chicago/Pritzker School of Medicine, and passed a clinical research fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He founded the GRADE Reading Center Bonn and is coordinator of the European MACUSTAR study on development of structural, functional and PRO endpoints in intermediate AMD. He is a Board Member of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG), Member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI), the Macula Society, among others, and Editor-in-Chief of Die Ophthalmologie. He has received numerous awards including the Pro Retina Macular Degeneration Research Award, the Leonhard-Klein Award for Ocular Surgery, the Alcon Research Institute (ARI) Award, the Senior Achievement Award of the AAO and the Jules Gonin Award. He published more than 800 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.