THE XXVI ISER BIENNIAL MEETING
Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 2024
Professor Luminita Paraoan is RPE-Choroid Section Co-Organiser with Professor Janet Sparrow, Columbia University, NY, USA
CELLS Special Issue: Retinal Pigmented Epithelium (RPE) and the Choroid: Players and Partners for Vision
Launch September 2024
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Luminita Paraoan (Edge Hill University, UK) and Prof. Dr. Janet R. Sparrow (Columbia University, NY, USA)
Math-in-Eyes Special Interest Group meeting
Brasenose College, Oxford
September 2024
UK Fluids Network SIG on the Fluid Mechanics of the Eye
UKRI EPSRC/Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
New research grant award
March 2024
Deploying CRISPR-Cas9 genomic screening for elucidating the mechanisms of age-related vision impairment and macular disease in the retinal pigmented epithelium – Seedcorn Award to Dr Ioan Matei
Macular Society UK Trustees’ first visit to Edge Hill University
June 2023
Vice-chair of Trustees Alison Guthrie and Senior Trustee Bill Best visited the research labs and attended research presentations by Dr Ioan Matei and Dr Daniel Grimes.
Top place for research presentation
June 2023
Ioan came joint first in the staff competition for research presentations made during the University’s Teaching and Research Week events and celebrations. His presentation was about the study of mitochondrial modulation in age-related degenerative physiology.
Ocular Molecular Biology and Mechanisms of Disease
Research is focused on fundamental cellular processes on two major scientific directions:
- Proteostasis, regulation of proteolysis and intracellular trafficking in health, ageing and degenerative conditions
- Cell signalling and programmed cell death (apoptosis) regulatory networks
There is a strong track record with close collaborative links on molecular/cellular and systems biology with groups in various institutes in Liverpool, as well as national (Manchester, Leeds, Wolverhampton) and international (USA, China, Thailand, Brazil, Spain, Malaysia) collaborations.
