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IoO Annual Lectures

The UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Annual Award Lecture was established in 2018 to honour scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field of ophthalmology and visual science.

2024

Professor Catherine Bowes Rickman, Duke University Medical Centre
Title: The Promise of Complement Factor H Augmentation for Dry AMD Treatment


2023

Professor Krzysztof (Kris) Palczewski from the University of California
Title: Precise genome editing in the eye: curing blindness is now within sight


2022

Professor Mike Sapieha from the University of Montreal
Title: Revascularizing the Ischemic Retina


2021

Professor Constance Cepko from Harvard Medical School
Title: Cell fate determination in retinal development


2020 (online only)

Professor Justine Smith from Flinders University
Title: Mechanisms of Ocular Toxoplasmosis


2019

Professor John Gerard Flannery
​​​​​​​Title: Optogenetics for Vision Restoration


2018

Professor Patricia D’Amore from Schepens Eye Research Institute 
Title: Novel roles for Endomucin in inflammation and angiogenesis