News and Events
4th December 2008
UCL Lunchtime Lecture: Stemming Vision Loss with Stem Cells - Seeing is believing
On 4th December, Prof Pete Coffey gave the last UCL Lunchtime Lecture of the term. The lecture was filmed live and is now available to watch online at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed/lhlpub2/16_041208 If this link is no longer available the lecture can be downloaded for free via UCL iTunes U. The link to UCL's iTunes Stores can be found here http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed/autumn2008
23th July - 14th August 2008
Talk & Exhibition: Paintings in Hospitals annual summer exhibition, Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery, London
Talk 23rd July: In association with London Arts and Health Forum, Prof Pete Coffey (Director of the London Project) and portrait artist Adam Hahn, will discuss Hahn's work, which explores what is seen by people with age-related macular degeneration. Booking necessary Tel: 020 7407 3222.
Exhibition: "In Search of Beauty and Wellbeing". The Paintings in Hospitals exhibition runs from 23rd July - 14th August 2008. Admission free. Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU.
13th June - 17th July 2008
Exhibition: Adam Hahn's Portraits of Macular Degeneration
Friend to the London Project to Cure Blindness, artist Adam Hahn, will be exhibiting at the Mascalls Gallery during June and July.
http://www.mascallsgallery.org/hahn004.htm
Adam's paintings are an artistic exploration and documentation of what is seen by people with age-related macular degeneration. By representing the person as they would see themselves these paintings engage the viewer in trying to understand how other people see. The series of paintings have been created after long discussions with each person about their individual vision and with scientific data from Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Institute of Ophthalmology.
Please help Adam in his work to raise public awareness about AMD by popping into the exhibition.
12th May 2008
Macular Disease Society donates £50k to the London Project and launches 2008 Annual Appeal
This year the Macular Disease Society is raising funds for the London Project to Cure Blindness. A cheque for £50k was presented to Prof Pete Coffey at the recent MDS conference in Edinburgh.
http://www.maculardisease.org/show_news.asp?section=00040003&id=346&date=2008/04/01
7th February 2008
Professor Pete Coffey to speak at the UCL Annual Alumni Lecture in New York
Professor Pete Coffey will speak on "Seeing is Believing: The London Project to Cure Blindness". This is the fourth time UCL has held this event, and it is always an interesting and fun occasion.
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16th January 2008
Eye-opening event raises awareness about The London Project to Cure Blindness
A unique event on 16th January 2008 at Shakespeare's Globe in London will provide guests with the opportunity of experiencing first-hand the difficulties faced by people going blind, to raise awareness about a groundbreaking stem cell project to develop a cure for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).
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12th December 2007
Professor Pete Coffey to speak at the British Neuroscience Association Christmas Symposium at the Royal Society
Professor Pete Coffey to give a talk entitled “The London Project to Cure Blindness: Stemming vision loss with stem cells” at the British Neuroscience Association Christmas Symposium 2007. The Ageing Brain: from basic mechanisms to public policy. The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1.
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31st October 2007
Great Britons - Nominees Robin Ali, Pete Coffey and Francesca Cordeiro
The Daily Telegraph and Morgan Stanley have teamed to nominate those Britons who make Great Britain "truly great". We are highly pleased to discover three UCL Institute of Ophthalmology researchers amongst a list of 13 nominees in the "Science and Innovation" category. Those researchers are Professor Robin Ali, Professor Pete Coffey and Dr Francesca Cordeiro who have been nominated for their pioneering efforts to treat blindness.
Please click here to read the full story in the Daily Telegraph.
1st October 2007
Complement factor H-deficiency results in retinal abnormalities and visual dysfunction
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common irreversible cause of severe visual impairment and legal blindness globally. AMD is characterized by progressive destruction of the retina’s central region, the macula, which causes a loss of vision in the central field. The pathogenesis of AMD is still unclear but metabolic, functional, genetic and environmental factors are thought to be associated with disease development.
In the past familial aggregation, segregation analysis and twin studies have identified up to six regions of our genome that harbor genes that cause clinical features of disease similar to AMD. In 2005 a number of independent research groups identified a common variant (Y402H) of the complement factor H gene (CFH) which could possibly explain 50% of AMD cases.
The latest findings reported in PNAS from Professor Pete Coffey's and Professor John Greenwood's groups looks at an experimental model of the disease, where the factor H gene has been deleted. Collectively, these data show that, CFH is critically required for the long-term functional health of the retina. Importantly, the work provides evidence that CFH deficiency is associated with spontaneous retinal changes and also provides mechanistic insights into the relationship between CFH dysfunction and human AMD.
15th June 2007
Institute of Ophthalmology cited in Times supplement
In a supplement entitled “Vision: Your Guide to Good Eye Care” included in The Times (15 June 2007) Institute of Ophthalmology researchers were highlighted for their groundbreaking work in the areas of gene therapy (p.6) and the use of human embryonic stem cells (p.12) to treat blinding eye disease.
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