All of us here at the Trust would like to congratulate IACD Eye and Vision Science Professor, Luminita Paraoan, on recently being awarded the honour of becoming a Fellow of Arvo (Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology), the largest and most respected eye and vision research organisation in the world.

This is an extremely prestigious award given in recognition of Professor Paraoan's hard work, and individual contribution to advancing research worldwide.

To learn more about this award, and what Professor Paraoan had to say on receiving it, please click here

NEW PAPERS

In addition to the award, Lumi and her team have recently had 2 papers published which formerly acknowledge the Trust's support.  Please click on the links below to view the reports.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information

And hot of the press, the below paper was only made available on 17 January 2019 under open access:

www.nature.com/scientificreports

Both are helping Umar Sharif, PHd research assistant, progress his current study and all the team are obviously very pleased with the outcome.