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Academic research is essential to delivering high-quality, equitable eye care. It underpins clinical excellence, drives innovation, and helps ensure ophthalmology continues to meet the needs of patients and the NHS. Research is a core part of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ work and purpose.
We have agreed a new pilot collaboration with the Cochrane Eyes and Vision US Project (CEV@US), aimed at strengthening the evidence base that underpins our guidelines. This pilot will begin with the guidelines on Infection Keratitis.
The College has expressed its support for the newly-published Position statement on clinical research from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC).
Applications are now invited for the RED Trust research bursary, which supports an ophthalmologist in training to undertake an epidemiological study of a rare eye condition through the British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit (BOSU).
Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.
The College has expressed support for the urgent call for coordinated action to address the decline in clinically trained research staff, which was made in the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) recently published report “Clinical Researchers in the United Kingdom: Reversing the Decline”. We believe this is critically important for the future of UK healthcare and biomedical innovation.
Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.
A research team from Moorfields, led by Mr Harry Petrushkin, has launched a new national study through the British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit (BOSU) into ocular hypotony, a sight-threatening condition where the pressure inside the eye is low enough for long enough to cause permanent structural changes and vision loss.
Professor Harminder S Dua CBE has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief of Eye, the College’s flagship scientific journal.
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to a successful 2025 Annual Congress – EyeConUK – in Liverpool last week.
