Minister for Life Sciences visits the hospital

The Minister for Life Sciences, Mr George Freeman, met leading clinicians and scientists from Moorfields and UCL’s Institute of Ophthalmology today (December 3).

The minister visited the Retinal Therapy Unit to see the administration of an intravitreal injection for the treatment for wet age related macular degeneration.

He also met and talked to the professors, surgeons and scientists behind potential new treatments. These included the team behind the London Project to Cure Blindness which is tackling age related macular degeneration and the gene therapy programme which Moorfields and UCL are working on developing to treat inherited retinal diseases.

He also toured the National Institute Health Related Clinical Research (NIHR) Facility at Moorfields to meet staff and witness first hand a number of other research projects, and find out more about the work of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre based at Moorfields.