National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have been awarded £20m funding over five years.
This has been the fourth time that the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre has received the funding since it opened in 2007. Moorfields claimed to be the only eye specialist to achieve this status, and said the award provided ‘the foundation for collaboration to discover, develop and deliver excellent eye care.’
Moorfields Eye Hospital chief executive Dr Martin Kuper, commented: ‘Patients and staff are at the heart of everything we do. This award will build an even stronger culture of collaboration, underpinned by our plans for Oriel, a joint Moorfields-UCL national eye care, research and education centre, where we will aim to deliver ‘sight for all’ through innovations in eye health.’
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