Overview
Our Biomedical Research Centre is dedicated to vision research. After two consecutive five-year terms starting back in 2007, we successfully received a new NIHR award in 2017 for another five years to support and further develop our research strategy. We continue to prioritise areas where there is unmet patient need and where we have an outstanding track record of translational achievement and expertise at an international level.
Around our research, we have built infrastructure, we are growing strategic partnerships and collaborations and building capacity to support and consolidate all the links of the translational bridge. As a result, new treatment techniques and practices that improve patient health are being brought through to clinical and surgical practice as quickly as possible, thereby benefiting patients, as well as the NHS, universities and the UK as a whole.
Who We Are
Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw
– Director of the NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and of Research and Development
– Lead for the Regenerative Medicine and Pharmaceutics research theme
Professor Philip J Luthert
– Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (partner to Moorfields Eye Hospital in the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre)
Mr Frank Larkin
– Deputy Director of the NIHR Moorfields BRC
– Director of the NIHR Moorfields Clinical Research Facility
Professor Robin Ali
– Professor of Human Molecular Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
– Lead for the Gene Therapy research theme
Professor John Marshall
– Frost Professor of Ophthalmology at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital
– Lead for the New Technologies and Devices research theme
Professor Andrew Dick
– Director of Joint Research at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital
– Lead for the Inflammation and Immunotherapy research theme
Professor David Garway-Heath
– International Glaucoma Association Professor of Ophthalmology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
– Lead for the Visual Assessment and Imaging research theme
Professor Andrew Webster
– Moorfields Eye Hospital lead for the 100,000 Genomes Project
– Lead for the Genotyping, Phenotyping and Informatics research theme