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Awards & QUALIFICATIONS

  • The Ruskell Medal, The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, 2021
  • The Founder's Cup, Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, 2018
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, 2016
  • MRC/Fight for Sight Clinical Research Training Fellowship2015
  • Crombie Medal, Royal College of Ophthalmologists 2011
  • BM BCh with Distinction, University of Oxford 2010
  • MA (First Class), University of Cambridge 2007
  • Swann Prize for Biology, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge 2007
  • Ian Gordon-Smith Prize for Medicine, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge 2005

Harry Orlans

MA (Cantab) BM BCh DPhil FRCOphth


Clinical Research Fellow

  • Specialist Registrar and Locum Consultant (Accident & Emergency), Moorfields Eye Hospital, London

Harry's background is in Clinical Ophthalmology as a Specialist Registrar within the North London/Moorfields Eye Hospital training rotation. 

Harry's research focusses on developing a new gene-therapy based treatment for dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP) caused by defects in the rhodopsin gene. These mutations account for around a quarter of all cases of dominant RP and are one of the most common genetic cause of sight loss in the UK.