Assessment Panels

The Grants Assessment Panel (GAP) members help us in assessing grants and make recommendations to the Grants Committee. Its members are:

Professor Chris Hammond (Chair)
Frost Chair of Ophthalmology, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital, London

Professor Maria Balda
Professor of Cell Biology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Professor Rupert Bourne
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Vision & Eye Research Unit, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Professor Che Connon
Professor of Tissue Engineering, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle

Professor David Crabb
Professor of Statistics and Vision Research, City University London, London

Professor Alastair Denniston
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, Birmingham University, Birmingham

Professor Chris Dickinson
Professor of Clinical Optometry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester

Professor Jeremy Guggenheim
Director of Research, School of Optometry and Vision, Cardiff University, Cardiff

Professor Alison Hardcastle
Professor of Molecular Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Professor Chris Inglehearn
Professor of Molecular Ophthalmology and Neuroscience, Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Leeds University, Leeds

Mr Timothy Jackson
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, King’s College London

Mr Frank Larkin
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London

Professor Janet Liversidge
Emeritus Professor in Immunology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

Professor Andrew Lotery
Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Southampton, Southampton

Professor Keith Martin
Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Professor Paul McGraw
Allen Standen Chair in Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Nottingham University, Nottingham

Mr Martin McKibbin
Consultant Ophthalmologist, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds

Professor Barbara Pierscionek
School Associate Dean for Research, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

Professor Heping Xu
Professor of Ocular Immunology, Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Small Grants Assessment Panel (SGAP) members help us in assessing Small Grant Awards applications and make recommendations to the Grants Committee. Its members are:

Miss Denize Atan MB BCh MA MRCP FRCOphth PhD
University of Bristol

Dr Pirro Hysi MD PhD
King's College London

Dr Hari Jayaram BM BCh MRCOphth PhD FRCSEd
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Dr Tiarnan Keenan BM BCh MA MSc MRCOphth
University of Manchester

Dr Alex Shortt MB BCh MSc MRCOphth PhD
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trsut and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Professor Anita Simmers DBO MPH PhD FSB FRSA
Glasgow Caledonian University