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Podcast potpourri

8/28/2020

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Dr. Rahhal is quickly becoming a prolific podcaster. In this week's roundup Firas hosts three podcasts with another impressive list of guests offering different perspectives on ophthalmic innovation. 

Retina from the Catbird's Seat

In this third OIS Retina Podcast, host Firas Rahhal, MD, sat down with Paul Hallen, VP, Global Head, Retina and Glaucoma, at Alcon, who talks about how he grew with the company over 31 years and provides an engineer’s perspective on how far innovation in retina surgery has come, and where it’s heading. ​
Watch the conversation on YouTube. 
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Au Petit Bonheur la Chance

In the fourth installment of the OIS Retina Podcast guest is French-born Patricia Zilliox, who boomeranged back to her homeland to become president and CEO of Eyevensys. Before that she’d spent 25 years with Alcon before joining the Foundation Fighting Blindness as chief drug development officer. Having spent so much time evaluating new therapies at FFB, she was intrigued by Eyevensys’ unique platform to enable the sustained intraocular production of therapeutic proteins to treat a broad range of ophthalmic disease. Listen to hear Patricia share more details on Eyevensys’ lead product: a gene therapy to treat uveitis. 
Watch the conversation here. 
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Treating Challenge as Opportunities

In this episode of the OIS Retina Podcast, Firas is joined by legendary vitreoretinal specialist and serial entrepreneur, Mark Blumenkranz, MD, MMS. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing in the start-up ship, but Dr. Blumenkranz persevered and now shares his proven recipe for ophthalmic innovation. (Hint: It starts with an unmet need.) Dr. Blumenkranz also talks about his investment/incubation firm Lagunitas Biosciences and drug delivery start-up Kedalion Therapeutics. 
​Watch the conversation here. 
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