Optician news in brief

A knighthood has been awarded to Professor Peng Tee Khaw, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's director of research and development. He was awarded a knighthood for services to ophthalmology in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Professor Khaw, an eye doctor who specialises in glaucoma surgery, said: 'I am very humbled to have been awarded this incredible honour.' Up until May he was also president of global research organisation the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.

Heidelberg Engineering has supplied a Spectralis OCT ophthalmic imaging device for docking at the International Space Station (ISS). It was packed into the European Space Agency spaceship Albert Einstein in a launch earlier this month, and will be used for detailed examinations of the back of ISS astronauts' eyes. A NASA programme to study ocular changes after space flight and mitigate potentially sight-threatening risks on long-duration missions has seen the agency purchase several of the devices.