Bruno Lumbroso Lecture
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Professor Bruno Lumbroso created the annual International Congress on OCT Angiography, En Face OCT and Advances in OCT (ICOOR), which became the largest OCT/OCTA Congress in the world until 2020. Since 2021, the ICOOR has been held in conjunction with the FLORetina Congress. The joint FLORetina - ICOOR Congress is directed by Professor Stanislao Rizzo and Professor Francesco Faraldi of Italy and has become one of the most important congresses in the field of Retina in the world.
The Bruno Lumbroso Lecture has been established at each International Congress on OCT Angiography and FloRetina to honor the outstanding lifetime contributions that Professor Lumbroso made to the field of ocular imaging and retina.
Ninth Annual Lumbroso Lecturer
It is with tremendous pleasure and honor that we announce The Ninth Bruno Lumbroso Lecturer: Napoleone Ferrara, MD. Dr. Ferrara is currently Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Professor Ferrara also holds the Hildyard Endowed Chair in Eye Disease at UCSD.
Professor Napoleone Ferrara will deliver the Ninth Lumbroso Lecture on Saturday, December 5, 2026 at 12:15-12:45pm CET, in Florence, during the FLORetina - ICOOR Congress, with a stimulating lecture that signifies his lifetime contribution to the field of vision research: VEGF and Ocular Angiogenesis: A Journey of Discovery and Clinical Translation.
