• Embargo policy: Press releases with abstract data or stories on information presented at the ARVO Annual Meeting may not be released or published until the embargo date specified by ARVO. The only exception to this is if an author has submitted the abstract to a journal, as allowed in the Abstract Unpublished Work Policy, and it is published prior to the ARVO Annual Meeting.

• Embargo dates: Posters, Paper sessions, Symposia, Minisymposia, Cross-sectional Groups and invited speaker sessions that have specific presentation times will be embargoed until the end of those individual time slots.

• ARVO does not share its news release distribution list or its list of journalist attendees with outside organizations.

• ARVO Annual Meeting online program materials and publications aim to promote vision research and scientific discourse for educational purposes. ARVO accepts no responsibility for any products, presentations, opinions, statements or positions expressed; and inclusion of such material within the Meeting, the publications or posted online does not constitute an endorsement by ARVO.

• ARVO does not undertake responsibility for providing updated information relating to material presented in abstracts.

• ARVO requests that after abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 2025 Annual Meeting, related communications that are required to fulfill Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or other regulations be released only after the abstracts are made publicly available through our online planner.

• Companies that find it necessary or choose to distribute abstract-related communications are required to provide the text of press releases or other communications to ARVO for review prior to distribution. Please send draft releases to Jenniffer Scherhaufer, Assistant Director of Communications (media@arvo.org).

• Information contained in such releases is limited to the content of the abstract. Additional information about the study or research to be presented at the ARVO Annual Meeting cannot be included in the press release.

• The abstract cannot be reprinted in its entirety.

• Direct quotations from abstracts are limited to 50 words or less. Quotations must contain an attribution to ARVO as follows:

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• Paraphrases of abstract content are acceptable.

• All other press releases are embargoed until the conclusion of presentation at the ARVO Annual Meeting.

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