Tian Wong
Vice Provost at Tsinghua University and Chair Professor of Tsinghua Medicine; ophthalmologist and physician-scientist specializing in retinal diseases and oculomics
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Jul 6, 2026
Anat LoewensteinHOST
Can you elaborate a little more on these systemic biomarkers that, uh, we can learn from oculomics?
Tian WongGUEST
So there are now, uh, significant research by many different research groups around the world.
Tian WongGUEST
One is using the eye, more commonly, uh, uh, the retinal photograph, but of course, you can also use OCT, even external eye photographs.
Tian WongGUEST
Uh, and some people are even using eye tear biomarkers, right? So it, it's not restricted to retinal photographs.
Tian WongGUEST
But the retinal photographs is the most, uh, widely used, uh, uh, marker at the moment.
7 MINS LATER
Anat LoewensteinHOST
What do you see are the challenges in advancing oculomics and integrating it into routine clinical practice? Because I'm sure there are many barriers to this.