Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK

3-4th September 2026

Topic: Abnormal Proliferation of the Eye

Chairs: Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, Stanford, USA, Mandeep Sagoo, London, UK

Academic Organiser: Patrick Yu Wai Man, Cambridge, UK

Friday

Time	Topic	Speaker	Location
Time	Topic	Speaker
08:45	Welcome	Patrick Yu Wai Man	Cambridge, UK
	UNDERSTANDING MECHANISMS - COMPARATIVE DISEASES
09:00	Proliferation: understanding cancer mechanism	Richard J. Gilbertson	Cambridge, UK
09:30	Check-mate? Selective immune stimulation	Sapna Patel	Denver, USA
10:00	Pathologic insights into ocular proliferations	Alexandre Moulin	Lausanne, SW
10:30	Coffee
11:00	GNAQ associated ocular diseases	David Zecchin	London, UK
11:30	Comparative ocular oncology - from eyelid carcinomas in cats to retinoblastoma in rats	David Williams	Cambridge, UK
12:00	Intraocular proliferation and wound healing: PVR as a model	Leo Kim	Harvard, USA
12:30	Lunch
	MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIAGNOSTICS
14:00	Ocular Liquid biopsy in ocular proliferations	Vinit Mahajan	Stanford, USA
14:30	Blood biomarkers in ocular cancers	TBC	Los Angeles, USA
15:00	Radiographic imaging in ocular proliferations	Pim de Graaf	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15:30	Tea
	PAEDIATRIC PROLIFERATIVE DISEASE
16:00	Retinoblastoma	TBC	Philadelphia, USA
16:30	Paediatric proliferative retinopathies	Lejla Vajzovic	Durham, USA
17:00	CLOSE

Time	Topic	Speaker	Location
	OCULAR MELANOMA
09:00	Ocular melanoma genetic drivers	William Harbour	Dallas, USA
09:30	Neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatments in melanoma	TBC	London, UK
10:00	Optic nerve tumours	Brinda Muthusamy	Cambridge, UK
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Eyelid Tumours	John Bladen	London, UK
11:30	Ocular surface neoplasms	Mandeep Sagoo	London, UK
12:00	Approaches to conjunctival scarring	Cynthia Yu Wai Man	London, UK
12:30	LUNCH
	ORBITAL AND NEUROPROLIFERATIVE DISEASES
14:00	Orbital fibrosis and infiltrative diseases	Prem Subramanian	Denver, USA
14:30	Von Hippel Lindau: targeted therapies and ocular impact	TBC	Cambridge, UK
15:00	Genetic insights into phacomatoses	TBC	London, UK
15:30	Tea
	NON-ONCOLOGIC OCULAR PROLIFERATIVE DISEASES
16:00	The evolving management of thyroid eye disease	Xianqun Fan	Shanghai, China
16:30	Pharmacologic management in proliferative vitreoretinopathy	David Charteris	London, UK
17:00	Role of AI in cancer detection: lessons for the eye	Prithvi Mruthyunjaya	Stanford, USA
17:30	CLOSE

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