Moorfields hosts veteran visit

 

Hosted by professor Peng Tee Khaw, director of research and development at the hospital, the party is part of a programme called Project Gemini, which has been established through a joint initiative with Blind Veterans UK and the American Blinded Veterans Association. The visit is part of a six-day exchange trip which includes discussions about blind rehabilitation and readjustment training, vision research and adaptive technology for the blind. 

 

Professor Khaw said: “It was a pleasure and an honour to meet these brave American and British veterans, most of whom have lost their sight while serving their countries. We were able to explain to them some of the state-of-the-art research being carried out here and at other National Institute of Health Research facilities elsewhere in the country. 

 

“The work we discussed included some exciting and positive development in regenerating damaged and diseases nerve cells, and new stem cell transplantation and drug delivery discoveries which may in the future lea to people with loss of vision having it restored.”