Funny pics are always appreciated - keep them coming!

Now Chrissy from NIHR Moorfields BRC telling us about how to include EDI in our research. Very important topics too often overlooked.

Chrissy from NIHR Moorfields BRC telling us about the new conditions of funding set up by NIHR to integrate EDI in research 🧪

From the UCL Translational Research Office Helen Cooksley telling us about how the Translational Research Office can help us to take our discoveries to the next level towards translation.

Amazing first session of flash talks given by Ola Krzywanska, Shane Liu & Ana C. Rodriguez - please go check their posters during the breaks today!

We're all set for the 8th UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Early Career Researcher Symposium 2025 Together with NIHR Moorfields BRC, Moorfields Eye Charity is proud to sponsor the prizes to recognise the hard work and excellent research undertaken by early career researchers. If you see us, drop by!

Kicking off the second session is Fithi Mengesha from the VPR lab

Next on stage Marcos Costa from the Davidson lab telling us about Fuchs dystrophy

Noha Soliman - Understanding Belongingness Among Early Career Researchers at UCL: The iLeadUp Project

Please reach out if you feel something is not right. You are not alone.

Dr. Natalia Smoktunowicz, Grants Officer for our sponsor Moorfields Eye Charity telling us about the funding opportunities for ECRs.

Thank you to Moorfields Eye Charity and Friends of Moorfields for judging our lay abstracts - Congratulations to the winner Shafi Balal and runner-up Lynn Kandakji!

Tessa and Ryan on behalf of the IoO Fellowship committee explaining the key steps in preparing a fellowship application.

Very informative session led by Amy from Proteintech Group during our ECR symposium

and now our keynote speaker – Prof. Jugnoo Rahi - Improving outcomes for children and young people living with vision and eye disorders

Jason Hopley from the Zecchin Lab presenting his work on uveal melanoma.

next on stage Gabriel Velichkova and her work on ABCA4-related retinopathy

Anna Kennedy from the VPR lab on Brain's adaptation to vision loss.

And to finish off this fantastic day of science, the final 3 flash talks from our ECRs: Jack Stanley, Simona Mikula Mrstakova, Ariel Ong