Ulster University vision scientists have taken an important first step towards the world’s first cure for hereditary blindness, pioneering a personalised medicine that targets and repairs genetic damage in part of the eye. The scientists have discovered a treatment that can repair damage caused by cloudy deposits in the cornea. The cornea is the […]

“The eye as a window to the circulatory system.” Professor Tara Moore from Ulster University aims to develop a simple new test to enable opticians to predict the risk of heart disease.  The project was awarded £51,247 Read more HERE

Critics of the present system of science funding say it’s rather like modern football where the richest clubs are the most successful, which makes them even richer enabling them to continue to be successful. The largest universities get the bulk of the funds because that is where the best research is conducted. But that means […]

This time last year Tara Moore and her husband Consultant Ophthalmologist Professor Johnny Moore travelled up the Amazon River on a charitable expedition with the Andean Medical Mission; a UK charity within the Bolivian Andes and Amazon.  Johnny lead a surgical unit carrying out sight saving eye surgery on people who are unable to access Ophthalmologists. […]