The Conference on Recent Advances in Translational Eye Research 2025 is an opportunity for all researchers, investors, and entrepreneurs whose interests focus on the eye.

The conference will enable discussion between specialists from different fields who are united in their pursuit to understand better the challenges of eye imaging, the process of vision, and formation of eye diseases. During this international and interdisciplinary event, we will discuss frontiers of research on new methods and tools enabling diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases and also ideas on how to facilitate rapid implementation of new eye therapies.

The second edition of CRATER coincides with the 25th anniversary of the first 3D Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging of the human retina – a revolutionary milestone in ophthalmology that provided unprecedented three-dimensional visualization of retinal structures. CRATER 2025 celebrates this transformative advancement by dedicating special sessions highlighting the key milestones of Fourier Domain OCT implementation and discussing remaining challenges and future innovations.

Conference Themes and Topics: Novel imaging techniques, Ophthalmic genetics & genomics, Two photons in the eye, Bioinformatics, Retina neuroscience, Wavefront manipulation, Structural biology, Functional imaging, Small animal imaging, Artificial intelligence & machine learning, Molecules processes of vision, Optical coherence tomography, Robotics in vision research and ophthalmology, Structural imaging, Eye treatments, Human imaging, Vision science.

The conference is organised by International Centre for Translational Eye Research (part of Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences) and the Candela Foundation

All members of ICTER community, are committed to providing the best eye research through improvements of systems, processes and technology. We are researchers & innovators whose scientific goals are focused on eye.

The CRATER 2023 conference is supported by i2EYE. The next i2EYE meeting will be held in Pittsburgh in 2024. All the participants of previous editions of  i2EYE are invited to participate in the CRATER meeting in 2023.

The Candela Foundation supports development of optics and photonics in Poland.