Research

• ELZA’s team members are very involved in both clinical and basic research. ELZA follows the American model, in which advances in medicine do not necessarily always have to come from a university. Even small and innovative so-called “think tanks” can serve as incubators for translational research.

• Patients can benefit from physicians who not only know and use the latest medical technology, but have helped to develop them – and therefore have a deeper understanding of them.

Basic research

Retina

• Publication of several high impact publications, among others in Nature Medicine and Nature Genetics.
• Molecular mechanisms of retinal degeneration.

Cornea

• Better understanding the mechanisms of wound healing of the cornea after refractive laser surgery.
• Improving cross-linking technology.
• Keratoconus and corneal biomechanics.
• Further developing PACK-CXL for treating corneal infections.

Clinical research

Cornea

• Improvement of ablation algorithms in refractive laser surgery.
• Complications managment: the establishment of new techniques for the correction of complications after refractive laser surgery.
• Improvement of the corneal cross-linking technique for the treatment of progressive keratoconus, postoperative keratectasia, melting corneal processes and corneal dystrophies.

Scientific Publications