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New trial for blindness rewrites the genetic code
Ophthalmology
20 March 2017
Researchers have started a new gene therapy clinical trial to treat X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP), the most common cause of blindness in young people.
New spinout addresses sleep and circadian rhythm disruption
Ophthalmology SCNi
3 January 2017
Circadian Therapeutics has been established to identify and bring to market pharmaceutical and diagnostic platforms for the effective management of physiological and pathological conditions through their ability to modify the body's circadian rhythms.
Second phase of gene therapy trial for blindness under way
Ophthalmology Research
10 November 2016
The trial involves injecting a virus into the eye to deliver billions of healthy genes to replace a key missing gene for choroideremia sufferers.
World first for robot eye operation
Ophthalmology
13 September 2016
University of Oxford surgeons at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital have performed the world's first operation inside the eye using a robot.
Spinout develops smart glasses
Clinical Neurology Ophthalmology Research
9 August 2016
A spinout company from our Department, OxSight, has reported that in a recent UK-wide trial its smart glasses helped sight impaired and blind people to navigate independently, avoid collisions and see in the dark.
Lighting colour affects sleep and wakefulness
Ophthalmology Research
15 June 2016
Our researchers have shown how different colours of light could affect our ability to sleep.
Gene therapy shows long-term benefit for treating blindness
Ophthalmology
29 April 2016
Pioneering gene therapy has restored some vision to John Radcliffe Hospital patients with a rare form of genetic blindness for as long as four years, raising hopes it could be used to cure common causes of vision loss, new University of Oxford research published today shows.
Public missing out on a night’s worth of sleep every week
Ophthalmology
31 March 2016
Experts call for introduction of sleep guidelines in new report
Blind woman’s joy as she is able to read the time thanks to 'bionic eye'
Ophthalmology Research
5 January 2016
A patient who is the first in the UK to receive the world’s most advanced 'bionic eye' has been able to read the time for the first time in more than five years.
Why sleep could be the key to tackling mental illness
Ophthalmology
10 November 2015
Professor Russell Foster writes about circadian rhythm and health on the online news platform 'The Conversation'
£23 million boost for Oxford spinout company
Ophthalmology
9 November 2015
More money comes in to further work on gene therapy for choroideremia
What makes you tick?
Ophthalmology
9 November 2015
Find out a bit about our research into circadian rhythms
New Fellow to develop treatment for retinal disorder
Ophthalmology
26 October 2015
Harry Orlans will work with Robert MacLaren to develop a treatment for retinitis pigmentosa.
New insight into light detection in vertebrates
Ophthalmology Publication Research
19 October 2015
Research carried out in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences is paving the way for a better understanding of how light detection works in vertebrates.
The effects of working the night shift
Ophthalmology Research
29 July 2015
BBC Radio 4 presenter Sarah Montague, with input from Professor Russell Foster, investigates how working when most people are sleeping affects our bodies.
Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology Student becomes Professor
Ophthalmology
20 July 2015
Dominik Fischer, who completed his DPhil in our Department, received an extraordinary professorship at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen on Tuesday 7 July 2015.
Gene therapy gives long-term protection to photoreceptor cells in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa
Ophthalmology Research
15 July 2015
A collaboration between scientists in the UK and the USA has shown that gene therapy can give life-long protection to the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells responsible for colour vision in a mouse model of the most common inherited eye disorder.
Pioneering eye research to feature on One Show
Ophthalmology Research
6 July 2015
Pioneering Oxford research to tackle vision loss is set to feature on the BBC’s One Show this week.