Our Research Advisory Board

Our Translational, Strategic and Equipment funding decisions are based on independent, international expert peer reviewers, and on the recommendations of our independent Research Advisory Board. Its current members are:

• Professor Matthew Campbell (Vice Chair), Professor in Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
  
• Professor Tim Curtis, Professor of Vascular Physiology and Deputy Director for the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University of Belfast
• Dr Annegret Dahlmann-Noor, Consultant in paediatric ophthalmology, Senior Clinical Research
  Associate, University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital
  
• Professor Lisa Hill, Associate Professor in Translational Neuroscience, University of Birmingham
• Dr Victoria Kearns, Senior Lecturer in Ocular Biomaterials, University of Liverpool
• Professor Reinhold Medina, Professor of Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University of Belfast
• Professor Luminita Paraoan (Chair), Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Edge Hill University
• Dr Salman Rahman, Academic and biotech co-founder, University of Hertfordshire
• Professor Mitra Tavakoli, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Exeter
• Dr Colin Willoughby, Clinician (Consultant Surgeon) and Professor of Ophthalmology, Ulster University
• Miss Teresa Sandinha, Clinician (Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon), University Royal Liverpool Hospital
  

Our Research Advisory Board is an independent volunteer board with regularly rotating membership. Members abide by our code of conduct, and conflict of interests are managed through an agreed policy which follows the Association of Medical Research Charities Principles of Peer Review.

For all enquiries about our research funding, please contact grants@sightresearchuk.org or call 0117 325 7757.