Professor Alan Stitt

Prof Alan Stitt is the McCauley Chair of Experimental Ophthalmology at Queen’s University Belfast.  His research is focused on retinal vascular disease with a special interest in understanding the causes of diabetic retinopathy and discovering new targets to prevent disease progression.  He values interdisciplinary approaches that bring researchers together to address shared clinical challenges, and his work is typically collaborative in nature with partnerships nationally and internationally.  Prof Stitt holds a Wolfson-Royal Society Merit award, is Editor of Progress in Retinal & Eye Research and he is also the co-founder of two spin-out companies seeking to develop new therapeutics to prevent vision loss.