Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw honoured by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw, Director of Research, Development and Innovation at Moorfields, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists on 28 September 2021. An Honorary Fellow is the highest honour the College can bestow, and is only awarded in recognition of a lifelong contribution to ophthalmology.

“As a clinician, Professor Khaw’s specialisation is in glaucoma in young patients – those patients with the most challenging glaucoma,” said Mr Frank Larkin, in his citation for Professor Sir Peng Khaw. “He leads the largest paediatric glaucoma service in the world, to which infants and children are referred from all over the UK and internationally, with outcomes matching the best achieved internationally. Influenced by the life-changing consequences of unsuccessful glaucoma surgery, from his time as a research trainee to the present he has developed and championed new treatments from laboratory through to international clinical trials, in particular anti-scarring drugs and delivery systems for use in glaucoma surgery. He is a true translational researcher, passionately believing that scientific research will enable us to develop new and better treatments to changes lives for the better.”

“More generally, Peng is a colleague who has given exemplary service to our specialty, who really has changed things, with an emphasis on practical achievement; has demonstrated innovation and entrepreneurship; is an example of the best sustained and selfless voluntary service; and has delivered in a way that has brought distinction to UK life. His achievements fully justify the award of Honorary Fellowship of our College.”

“I was very humbled to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists,” said Professor Sir Peng Khaw. “I would like to thank Frank Larkin, for nominating me and for his kind words. The award also reflects also the many wonderful colleagues I have the privilege of working with now and in the past, the patients, who inspire us to continue to try to find better treatments, and the research that has made these improvements possible.”

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