Research into inherited retinal conditions is one of the key objectives of Retina UK.
The following researchers are currently working on projects funded by you, our community.
As part of our aim to nurture young scientists, we are very pleased to introduce one of our new PhD students as part of a co-funding agreement with the Macular Society.
Jenny Dewing is a postdoctoral researcher working on a Retina UK-funded project with Dr Arjuna Ratnayaka at the University of Southampton.
Dr Nikolas Pontikos is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and has been working on inherited retinal conditions for several years.
Dr Rachel Taylor is part of the UK Inherited Retinal Dystrophy Consortium (UKIRDC) team at the University of Manchester.
Nurturing a new generation of scientists is a vital investment in the future of retinal disease research, so we are delighted to be funding, in collaboration with the Macular Society, a new PhD studentship at Oxford University, supervised by Professor Robert MacLaren.
Hajrah Sarkar is a PhD student whose project is funded by Retina UK.
It’s not very often that we come across a researcher working on a project inspired by their own lived experience of a sight loss condition.
Jing Yu is a Research Assistant at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
The project aims to develop a cost effective method of examining the entire ABCA4 gene to look for variations that might cause disease.
Tomasz Tomkiewicz is undertaking a PhD studentship funded by Retina UK and The Macular Society.
