Event
ABO Seminar: Photomedicine: 3 Examples From Bench to Bedside
Professor Hubert van den Bergh (Photomedicine group Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL))
I will discuss 3 developments from the basics to widespread
clinical application, in which light is used for detecting disease,
and for treating disease. The first case is the development of an
auto-fluorescence bronchoscope used for the early detection of
bronchial cancer. The second topic is the development of the drug
HEXVIX (CYSVIEW in the US), for the early detection and quantitative
removal of bladder cancer. The third topic is the development of
Photodynamic therapy with Visudyne, combined with an anti-VEGF
antibody and a steroid, for treating exudative age-related macular
degeneration (AMD) and PCV (polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy).