Sandwiched between the brutalist concrete blocks of the Western Australia Commonwealth Court and the Perth Concert Hall, the Duxton Hotel was the setting for the 2025 Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society (ANZGS) Congress.
There, on the western edge of the world’s largest island, we were joined by speakers from Japan, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Poland and Germany, which added a more international flavour than in previous years.
Things kicked off for this annual gathering of Australasia’s glaucomatologists with a session on basic and translational science giving a view ahead of new research which could be coming to a clinic near you in the next few years. This included the emerging field of metabolomics, which may allow the analysis of tears to detect a stressed optic nerve or retinal ganglion cells.










