On October 19, the inaugural ceremony of the Institute of Ophthalmology of Nankai University and Academicians' Summit jointly held by Nankai University and Tianjin Eye Hospital were held in Tianjin Eye Hospital. Five academicians delivered excellent academic reports based on their respective research areas.

At the opening ceremony of the summit, the Institute of Ophthalmology of Nankai University was officially inaugurated and Xie Lixin, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, the honorary director of Shandong Institute of Ophthalmology was appointed chairman of the Academic Committee of the newly-launched Institute.

At the summit, academician Xie Lixin made a report of “Prevention and Treatment of  Corneal Blindness in China”. In his report, he introduced the status quo of prevention and treatment of cataract blindness, retinal disease blindness and current hot issues such as myopia prevention and control and reported on the status quo and prevention and treatment ofcorneal blindness in China.

Yang Xiongli, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the honorary director of the Institute of Neurobiology of Fudan University introduced the research results of his lab in myopia mechanism in the report entitled “An Overview of Myopia Research in Our Laboratory”, shared the history of research results of dopamine dependent mechanism and dopamine independent mechanism of myopic refractive deviation, and introduced new findings of study on the mechanism of self-sensitive retinal ganglion cells involved in myopia.

Chen Xiangmei, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and the director of State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases made a report of “Combined Use of TCM and Western Medicine Innovation and Talent Training of ‘Eye-Kidney’ Related Diagnosis and Treatment”. She said that fundus oculi is the window of systemic blood vessels. Hypertension and abnormal blood glucose can lead to endothelial dysfunction through multiple mechanisms, and finally leading to microvascular complications including renal diseases, retinopathy. Therefore, the observation of fundus oculi is of great importance for hypertension prediction and diabetic nephropathy.

Xu Jianguo, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and the president of the Research Institute of Public Health, Nankai University made a special report entitled “SpecialEco-environment Microorganisms & Emerging Infectious Diseases” and introduced the outbreak risk of 17 emerging infectious diseases in China and proposed the theory of active response to emerging infectious diseases - reverse etiology.

Zhang Yingze, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering made an academic report to explore the idea of technological content and measuring the technological contents.

(Reported by Fu Kun, Photographed by Zong Qiqi, edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)