Edited by
Thomas Yorio, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Abbott Clark, Alcon Laboratories, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Martin B Wax, Alcon Laboratories, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Description
Ocular Therapeutics: Eye on New Discovery focuses on emerging areas in ocular research, from new approaches to dry eye
to gene therapy in the management of retinal diseases. This comprehensive book features more than 25 chapters of information that will
be vital for ocular investigators and ophthalmologists bringing them new information on promising therapeutics. It is the intent of this
book to provide not only information on current approaches to treatment, but also in giving the reader a greater understanding as to
what may become available for treating a number of important eye diseases. Each chapter features some new aspect of treatment that holds
great promise for the future. The approach has been to concentrate on those areas of ocular diseases that are more prevalent. It also
features new insight for drug delivery and for managing devasting diseases, such as macula edema and glaucoma, two of the leading causes
of blindness in the United States. This book will serve as an important resource as it contains a number of relevant references highlighted
for their importance to the field. New investigators will be able to obtain an historical perspective for each of the topics and to develop
an understanding of the new research directions that are underway.
Ocular Therapeutics: Eye on New Discovery is more
than a reference book, as it also provides an important glimpse into the near future.
Audience:
Eye Researchers and Ophthalmologists
