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