The team from NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre has been invited by the Friends of Moorfields to the City Road Site for the day to talk to patients, staff and the public about the sight saving research done at the Institute of Ophthalmology and the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
When: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Where: near the hospital entrance, opposite the Costa
Two researchers are joining us:
· From Prof Claire Futters Cell Biology Lab and working on Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) we host Dr Minoo Razi, Senior Research Fellow. Dr Razi will be speaking to people about her work with the parts of the cell that help to clean biological waste at a cellular level.
· From the NIHR BioResource, a section of the NIHR that collects and holds biological information for researchers we will hear from Samantha Malka about the developments of genetic testing over the years, how easy it is to access and what it can tell us and you about your eyes.