Topping off a good week for the the AI Opportunities Team (inc. £500mn for the Sovereign AI Unit). 🇬🇧 Well done to hard-working colleagues who have helped to secure investment for such important work in difficult fiscal circumstances. Now to make it count!

A new study led by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology has flagged evidence gaps for AI eye imaging devices approved for patient care. - 1 in 5 tools had no peer-reviewed data - Very few tested in real-world settings - Gaps in age, gender & ethnicity reporting 🔗bit.ly/3FDs1LS

How is AI transforming ophthalmology? Excited to co-moderate the AI in Ophthalmology SIG at #Maculart2025 with the incredible Pearse Keane ! 🗓 July 1 | 14:30 | Paris With Pearse Keane Ariel Ong Claudio Xompero Aude Couturier #AI #Ophthalmology #Retina #Maculart2025

Well done Andrew Dick 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Discover the inspirational backstory behind our collaboration with insitro to build an AI foundation model for drug discovery - as told by Daphne Koller, Pearse Keane and patient champion @elainemanna Click link below to watch ⬇️

Two new projects led by UCL Institute of Ophthalmology's Professor Prof. Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi RN PhD FRCN in collaboration with INSIGHTeyehub will address challenges in data sharing and health equity, particularly within faith communities and underserved populations in #London. 🔗 buff.ly/uYPz4WZ

We are delighted to be working with Professor Prof. Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi RN PhD FRCN UCL Institute of Ophthalmology on such significant projects, bringing together UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences students with faith community members to better understand attitudes towards health data research and build trust.

Dressed in style for #Red4Research Day, our colleague Prof. Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi RN PhD FRCN and team launched a video campaign to boost research participation, funded by NIHR. The event was hosted by NIHR Moorfields BRC #BePartOfResearch Watch the videos: youtube.com/@NIHRMBRCPPI..…

Diagnosis of lupus from a retina photo + A.I. cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Big news: we’re kicking off the search for ARIA’s next CEO. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious orgs in science and tech. 1/8

👁️ Can AI spot signs of disease before symptoms show? Our Read of the Month features Cascader, a new startup using AI to revolutionize eyecare, & maybe even detect Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and more via the retina! Read the full story: ow.ly/vhra50WhsCj #OphthoTwitter

Many top academic AI researchers are GPU poor. The Sovereign AI Unit wants to change this story. We are seeking ambitious AI research proposals for UK academics aiming to take their research to the next level. Read below to find out more and apply 🧵👇

We were delighted to welcome Kevin Ashford from ITV News to Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to investigate 'AI for good'. Kevin spoke with Josef Huemer and Shafi Balal on new ways medical AI is being applied to improve disease detection and patient care. #oculomics Broadcast date coming soon!

Researcher Shubhank Verma has shown that patients in areas of greater socioeconomic deprivation have retinal features suggestive of accelerated ageing. Shubhank is at Pearse Keane's AI lab UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, enabled by INSIGHT. Read about this & more: bit.ly/4kkt01Z

It’s incredibly hard to express what Professor Pete Coffey meant to so many of us. The Macular Society has written a beautiful tribute to Pete and I'm honoured to have contributed a few words. Thank you, my friend, for so many happy days. macularsociety.org/about/media/ne…

The new Disney Pixar movie Elio has the main character sporting an eye patch. This seems like a good time to spread the word about amblyopia, the treatment for it, and #NIHfunded research on brain-based causes of vision loss. brnw.ch/21wU0DC

Join Cancer AI Conversation on July 22, 2025. Drs. Pearse Keane (UCL ) & Danielle Bitterman, MD (Harvard Medical School ) will discuss the use of synthetic data for privacy-preserving AI in a webinar moderated by Dr. Heidi Hanson (Oak Ridge Lab ). Registration: events.cancer.gov/nci/cancer-ai-…

It’s people like Tom and units like this that make me optimistic for the future of AI in the UK 👇👇👇

The Missing Faces of AI: Challenging Health Inequity in Eye Care fmai-hub.com/videos/the-mis…