Speaker Details
Bart Leroy
Belgium
Bart Leroy is an ophthalmologist and clinical geneticist specialised in, and passionate about inherited eye disorders. In collaboration with the teams at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA, and Ghent University (Hospital), Ghent, Belgium, Bart is involved in deep phenotyping and genotyping studies, and gene therapy projects for inherited retinal blindness. He was part of the team led by Profs J Bennett, AM Maguire & K High that helped bring Luxturna to market with in the USA & EU. He is Senior Clinical Investigator of the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) since 2010 until 2025. He is (co-)recipient of 32 scientific grants and prizes. Bart is board member of several professional organisations, including ISGEDR (Secretary-General), ERN-EYE (WG1 Retinal Diseases Co-Lead), EURETINA (Board Member for IRDs) and SGOF. He leads several multi-stakeholder efforts to increase awareness of IRDs through several channels.
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