Our researchers at ARVO 2026

The ARVO Annual Meeting is organised by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). It attracts thousands of experts and early career researchers to share advance research and discovery in vision science. 

The 2026 edition of the meeting will be held in Denver, Colorado from May 3 to May 7.

For the full programme of talks and presentations during the conference, please visit the link provided at the bottom of this page. 

Some of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology researchers presenting this year are listed below

(Please note this list is not exhaustive) 

Sunday 3 May

3:15-5pm, Session Title: Biochemistry and molecular biology of retina/RPE 
- Alex He, Poster Session
Title: Dbl3-driven Cdc42 signaling regulates apical membrane trafficking in polarized epithelia

Session Title: Foundational models and large-scale AI platforms in ophthalmology
- Yukun Zhou, 4:30-4:45pm, Paper session
Title: Generalisability and Fairness of Retinal Age Prediction Models Across Diverse Populations
Room: Mile High 2A/3A

Tuesday 5 May
Session Title: AI in ophthalmology IV
- Yqun Lin, 8:30-10:15am, Poster session
Title: Retinal Age Prediction with a Large-Scale Paired Multimodal Dataset

Tuesday 5 May
Session Title: AI in retina II (1:15-3:00pm)
- Mr Paul Nderitu, Poster session
Title: Enhancing Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Risk Prediction Using Retinal Vascular Morphology and Deep Learning Survival Models

Wednesday 6 May
Session Title: Glaucoma epidemiology (10:15am-12pm)
- Tom Taylor, Poster session
Title: “Polygenic risk scores can identify subgroups with higher glaucoma prevalence in European population-based studies”

Wednesday 6 May
10:15-12pm: Poster session: Global and public health
- Alicia Lim (Mahroo lab), Visual impairment certifications in England over 15 years: annual numbers attributable to age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetes and hereditary eye disease

Thursday 7 May
8-9:45am: Poster session: Gene variants and mutations
- Mohammed Sabir Acharat Parakkat (Mahroo lab): The Asp228Asn variant in BEST1 is associated with retinal dystrophy with high myopia

- Toshit Varshney (Mahroo Lab): Clinical phenotype associated with the Ser27Phe variant in PRPH2 

- Abdallah Abbas (Mahroo lab): Phenotypic features in ABCA4-retinopathy associated with the Arg2107His variant 

 8-9:45am: Poster session: IRD II
- Jit Kai Tan (Mahroo lab): Clinical features in patients with CABP4-associated retinopathy #5347

- Burcu Kandeger (Mahroo lab): Foveal outer retinal features on optical coherence tomography in non-syndromic CLN3-associated retinitis pigmentosa #5358

- Isaam Avi (Mahroo lab): Visual acuities in patients with PCARE-associated retinopathy #5366

Paper session: Electroretinography: Basic mechanisms and diseases [Location: Mile High 4A]
- Omar Mahroo 12:30-12:45pm Paper: A locus in CNGB3 associates with cone-driven electroretinogram responses in healthy individuals reaching genome-wide significance 

8-9:45am, Session Title: Visual fields and other functional testing
- Ming W.H. Fang: Abstract/Presentation Title: “Enhancing a Fast Perimetry Algorithm Using Functional”

2-3:45pm, Poster session
Session Title: Mechanisms of emmetropization and refractive errors
- Gary Ka Wai Wong, Presentation Title: Development of Paediatric Isogenic Posterior Ocular Mimetics for Myopia Research

There are many more researchers, PhD students, as well as joint members of both the IoO community and Moorfields presenting at this conference. For a full list, please refer to the master ARVO 2026 meeting planner.

Links

• ARVO 2026
• ARVO 2026 meeting planner
• UCL IoO at ARVO 2025
• Students at ARVO 2025