Sophia Ktori

I have 22 years' experience as a writer and editor specializing in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medicine and life sciences. I was also European News Editor at GEN for 7 years, reporting daily on academic research, and the commercial aspects of the biotech and pharma industries. A brief, postgrad period during which I was involved in molecular genetics research at Bristol University in the 1980s is a more distant memory, and most of what I achieved in then is now automated and can be completed within days.

Content by Sophia Ktori :

Business & Profession Professional Development

Does the Patient Know Who You Are?

12/04/2013 | Sophia Ktori

Patients need to know what their ophthalmologist actually ‘does’, and what to expect when they are referred.

Business & Profession Other

Statins Protect Against Cataracts

10/28/2013 | Sophia Ktori

A meta-analysis turns the premise that statin use increases the risk of cataract development on its head

Subspecialties Retina

Improving on Anti-VEGF

10/28/2013 | Sophia Ktori

In an animal model of ischemic retinal disease, a single Ang1 injection suppresses vascular leakage and stimulates blood vessel formation

About the Author

08/31/2013 | Phoebe Harkin, Ruth Steer, Roisin McGuigan, Mark Hillen, Michael Schubert, James Talks, Mark Talary, Tiarnan Keenan, Andreas Layer, Michael F. Chiang, Alain Saad, Alex Huang, Gregory D. Parkhurst, Hakam Ghabra, Mauricio Pérez, Alex Walsh, Pearse Keane, Hemlata Gupta, Karl Golnik, Jim Taylor, David Boyer, Francisco Sánchez León, Nikki Hafezi, Florian Kretz, Elizabeth Yeu, Sathish Srinivasan, Pooja Bandivadekar, Tushar Agarwal, Milind Pande, Niro Narendran, Michael Mrochen, Ray Radford, Ike Ahmed, Bala Ambati, Frederik Raiskup, Farhad & Nikki Hafezi, Bobby Qureshi, Arthur Cummings, Luis Izquierdo Jr., Jodhbir (Jod) Mehta, Bojan Pajic, Robert Montés-Micó, Boris Stanzel, Carl Glittenberg, Steven Vold, Renato Ambrósio Jr., Marsha Link, Erik Mertens, Bruce Allan, Juan Mura, Mark Latina, Gunther Grabner, Cathy Schanzer, M. Stewart Galloway, Jesper Hjortdal, Shafiq Rehma, Adam Jacobs, Mark Latina, José Cunha-Vaz, J. Martin Collinson, John West, Hongming Chen, Justin Hanes, Robert Langer, Amanda Hayhurst, Theo Seiler, Rod Solar, Cécile Delcourt, Sanjay Mantry, Anita Nevyas-Wallace, Carlos Buznego , Joannah Vaughan, David Huang, Pete Sudbury, Gerd Auffarth, Sibylle Scholtz, Farhad Hafezi, Paul Karpecki, Rachel Pilling, Michael Mrochen, David Geffen, Takami Sato , Carol Shields, Isabelle Leach, Alain Saad , Nicole Kretz, Andy Davies, Ehud Assia, Stela Vujosevic, Mark Blecher, Laura Hobbs, Marie-José Tassignon, Johan Blanckaert, Gullapalli Rao, David Kent, Marc Muraine, Magali Saint-Geniez and Patricia D’Amore, Kristine Morrill , Irv Arons, Marianne Shahsuvaryan, Sebastian Waldstein, Gregory Hageman, Fedra Hajizadeh , David Keegan, Scott Mackie, Caroline McHugh, Florian Gekeler, Nadir Bayoumi, Sophia Ktori , Rolf Schwind , Grace Willatt, Jeff Machat, Sondra Black, David Andrews, Eberhart Zrenner, Harminder Dua, Mark Shusterman, Arthur Cummings, Richard Gallagher, Mark Zacharria

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Business & Profession Glaucoma

Glaucoma from the patient's perspective.

08/31/2013 | Sophia Ktori

Free glaucoma simulation app reinforces the importance of taking medication. A recently-launched free app for iPhones and iPads will help newly diagnosed glaucoma patients better understand how the condition will affect their vision as it worsens, reinforcing the importance of taking prescribed eye drops and attending eye clinic.

Subspecialties Retina

Retinal Images Predict Future Stroke Risk

08/31/2013 | Sophia Ktori

The level of hypertensive retinopathy is an independent long-term risk factor. A recent study has demonstrated that retinal photographs can reveal the future stroke risk of hypertensive patients –