European Association for the Study of Diabetes Eye Complications Study Group Eva Kohner Awards

The Eva Kohner Award is made in recognition of important contributions to knowledge in the field of diabetic eye disease and its complications.

Eva Kohner Award Recipients

36^th EAsDEC Meeting, 2026
Professor Toke Bek
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
To look may be to overlook when we try to understand diabetic retinopathy

35^th EAsDEC Meeting, 2025
Professor Jennifer K. Sun
Harvard Medical School & Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, USA
Past, present and future of evidence-based care for diabetic retinal disease

34^th EAsDEC Meeting, 2024
     Professor Tunde Peto
     Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
     Diabetic eye care: learning from the past and looking into the future

33^rd EAsDEC Meeting, 2023
     Professor Rafael Simó
     Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
     Neurovascular Unit impairment in Diabetic Retinopathy: Clinical and therapeutic implications

32^nd EAsDEC Meeting, Belfast, 2022
Professor Sobha Sivaprasad
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

31st EASDec Meeting, Odense, Denmark 2021
Professor Simon Harding, Liverpool
Detecting diabetic retinopathy – timing is everything

30th EASDec Virtual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain 2020
No award recipient mentioned in programme> skipped because of virtual meeting

29th EASDec Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2019
Professor Alan Stitt, Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Identifying new therapeutic options for diabetic retinopathy: insights gained from understanding basic

pathogenesis

28th EASDec Meeting, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2018
Professor Lloyd Paul Aiello, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, USA
Diabetic eye disease – providing the best possible care

27th EASDec Meeting, Budapest, Hungary 2017
Steve Aldington, Gloucester, UK
I've looked at life from both sides now

26th EASDec Meeting, Manchester 2016
Thomas W Gardner, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (with contribution from Jeffrey Sundstrom)
A proposal for early and patient specific treatment for diabetic retinopathy

25th EASDec Meeting, Turin 2015
   Peter Scanlon, Gloucester, UK
    Diabetic retinopathy and DME/DMO endpoints and outcome measures in clinics, trials and
    studies

24th EASDec Meeting, Padova, Italy in 2014
Elisabeth Agardh, Lund, Sweden
Diabetic retinopathy: more than just a microvascular disease

23rd EASDec Meeting: Barcelona, Spain - 2013
   Francesco Bandello, Milan, Italy
    The association of laser with intravitreal therapies can improve the results of our DR
    treatments

22nd EASDec Meeting: Dublin, Ireland - 2012
Hans-Peter Hammes, Heidelberg, Germany
Diabetic retinopathy - lessons from preclinical models

21st EASDec Meeting: Gdańsk, Poland - 2011
Irene Stratton, Gloucester, UK
Does high blood pressure matter in DR? A review of evidence old and new

20th EASDec Meeting: Paris, France - 2010
John Fuller, London, UK
The epidemiology of diabetic retinopathy - insights from the EURODIAB study

19th EASDec Meeting: Oxford, United Kingdom- 2009
Ronald Klein Wisconsin, USA
The changing incidence of diabetic retinopathy and visual impairment

18th EASDec Meeting: Amsterdam, Netherlands - 2008
Jose Cunha Vaz Coimbra, Portugal
The primary role of endothelial dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy

17th EASDec Meeting: Rome, Italy - 2007
Massimo Porta Turin, Italy
Retinopathy as an indicator of cardiovascular risk

16th EASDec Meeting: Åarhus, Denmark - 2006

15th EASDec Meeting: Coimbra, Portugal - 2005

14th EASDec Meeting: Munich, Germany - 2004

6th EASDec Meeting Vienna - 1996

4th EASDec Meeting Turin - 1994 »