Moorfields showcases radical research techniques

Nestled around the back of Moorfields Eye Hospital sits the Child Vision Lab (CVL), a dedicated centre set up to study vision in infants and children. It was established back in 2010 as part of University College London’s (UCL) Institute of Ophthalmology and has undergone a number of research projects since opening. The aim of the CVL is to understand how vision develops in infants and children, and to understand how different eye diseases can cause this process to go wrong.

Post-doctoral research associate Dr Peter Jones has worked at the CVL for more than four years and focuses on developing new tests for understanding how children and infants see the world. ‘A lot of the impetus comes from the work at Moorfields, who are developing new chemotherapy and stem cell trials in an attempt to restore vision in children, so it’s really important to have an accurate measure of what a child sees and how their eyes are working.’