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Piera Versura

Associate Professor

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Academic discipline: MED/30 Ophthalmology

Research

Keywords: ocular surface, cornea, conjunctiva, tear film, in vitro cell culture, dry eye, neuroprotection, microbiome, Cord blood derived eyedrops rich in growth factors

Physiopathology of the human ocular surface.
Diagnostic procedures in laboratory medicine applied to small biological samples. with particular reference to human tears and microfluidic Lab-on-a-chip.
In vitro and ex vivo testing models on human cornea and conjunctiva 
Role of the microbiome in ocular surface pathophysiology
Airborne pollutants and the ocular surface
Cord blood-derived eyedrops rich in trophic factors for the treatment of eye diseases

Research group  Ocular surface and translation research in Ophthalmology

Laboratory  Cornea and Ocular surface analysis, and translational research in Ophthalmology