If you missed our Annual Lecture with Professor Uwe Wolfrum from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, you can now watch the full recording on the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology's YouTube channel. 🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0a...

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Annual Lecture 2026: Professor Uwe Wolfrum

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What can we expect from the next wave of medical AI? The College of Optometrists' journal, Acuity, explores how #oculomics and multiomics could shape the future of eye care. With input from oculomics pioneer Pearse Keane at @ucleye.bsky.social, Moorfields Eye Hospital, INSIGHT. bit.ly/4dwbLcp

Researchers at Tohoku Uni and @ucleye.bsky.social have developed a more precise AI model for measuring retinal age gap - a biomarker indicating the difference between a person’s biological age and their chronological age. #Oculomics bit.ly/4mJx7Hm

AI Can Use a Photo of the Eye to Estimate Retinal Age, Flag Risk for Major Diseases

A picture (of the eye) is worth a thousand words to this AI system that predicts the risk of developing major diseases like diabetes.

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Our colleague Fiston Gatera of @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfields.bsky.social took a portable GPU to Rwanda, successfully testing it for data curation with a team at AKIISA. The goal is to enable LMICs to build training data for the world's first globally representative medical AI, Global RETFound.

We have updated our data catalogue for #DiabeticRetinopathy, among the world's most comprehensive and diverse longitudinal datasets curated for this condition. View the data catalogue bit.ly/47JPK7R Find out how researchers can apply for access bit.ly/4mjZ7RR

Next year, we will be moving to the Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health in Kings Cross. The newly named centre is a joint initiative between @moorfields.bsky.social, @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields Eye Charity. Find out more: www.moorfields.nhs.uk/about-us/ori...

Using medical AI as ‘autopilot’ risks deskilling of clinicians, caution doctors and aviation safety experts. They have outlined five recommendations for using AI in healthcare. Co-authored by clinical researchers from @ucleye.bsky.social, Moorfields, INSIGHT and Lufthansa. bit.ly/4uzjM89

Using medical AI as ‘autopilot’ risks deskilling of clinicians, caution doctors and aviation safety experts. Here are five recommendations for using AI in healthcare.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into healthcare services, there are important lessons that the medical profession can learn from the aviation industry, which faced wide...

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How is AI transforming eye care? The College of Optometrists put the question to @pearsekeane.bsky.social and other leaders in the field for its journal Acuity. Pearse is professor of artificial medical intelligence at @ucleye.bsky.social and INSIGHT director. www.insight.hdrhub.org/post/decodin...

Decoding disease: transforming eye care with AI

Decoding Disease: the latest edition of Acuity, the journal of the College of Optometrists, explores how AI is transforming eye care by supporting earlier disease detection, clearer tracking and more ...

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CEO mentor, author and podcaster Patrick Mork invites INSIGHT director @pearsekeane.bsky.social to share how he built a career in #ophthalmology and helped to forge the fields of artificial medical intelligence and #oculomics at @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields Eye Hospital. youtu.be/ppuGE7_Nzp8

Your Eyes Are Revealing Diseases Hiding in Your Body

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Data Protection Day is marked globally to raise awareness of how personal data is collected, stored and used. When it comes to healthcare data, this may be more important than ever. Read how INSIGHT at Moorfields prioritises data protection to advance research. www.insight.hdrhub.org/post/protect...

Protecting privacy and ensuring best practice in data protection - Data Protection Day

Marked annually on 28th January, Data Protection Day is a timely opportunity to highlight how INSIGHT at Moorfields safeguards data, while enabling world-leading medical research.

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Colleagues at @moorfields.bsky.social have pioneered a sight-saving treatment for the rare condition hypotony, which leads to dangerously low eye pressure and vision loss. Reported today by @bbcnews.bsky.social and published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first-ever patient

Nicki's eye had collapsed in on itself, but a new gel injection method has saved her vision.

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Until 2nd Feb 2026, you can have your say on AI in healthcare in the NHS and wider sector. @mhragovuk.bsky.social has launched a call for evidence to shape the standards for the UK, open to everyone. www.gov.uk/government/n...

MHRA seeks input on AI regulation at ‘pivotal moment’ for healthcare

National Commission is seeking evidence to shape regulation of AI in healthcare and support the UK’s ambition for a world-leading, AI-enabled NHS

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Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou (@ucleye.bsky.social, @insighteyehub.bsky.social and @uclbrainscience.bsky.social) is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for a range of diseases – supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early-Career Award ⬇ #UCLandChina #UCLHealth

Using retinal images to predict disease across the world

Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) – a Wellcome Early-Career Award recipient – is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for an array of diseases.

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INSIGHT has been awarded £3.7 million in funding by @ukri.org MRC and @nihr.bsky.social to expand from Moorfields Eye Hospital and link national health data resources #oculomics Led by @pearsekeane.bsky.social, the 4-year project will be delivered with @ucleye.bsky.social bit.ly/47rM5vK

New initiative to transform UK eye health research by linking national data resources

The UK will benefit from a new initiative to scale the INSIGHT Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health and Oculomics – the world’s largest collection of curated eye imaging and linked clinical data at...

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An AI system can identify patients who are being under-treated or over-treated for sight-threatening macular disease. Validated at two UK eye centres, the AI could help transform NHS monitoring. Work led by Jeffry Hogg and pearsekeane at @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social bit.ly/4nsYO5O

AI can identify treatment gaps for patients with macular disease, study shows

Using artificial intelligence (AI) in eye clinics could reduce both undertreatment and overtreatment of neovascular or ‘wet’ age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

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People with sight loss have recovered reading vision after being treated with an electronic eye implant paired with augmented-reality glasses, reports a pioneering trial involving Mr Mahi Muqit @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfields.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

In conversation with The Ophthalmologist, our colleague Paul Nderitu describes a world-first initiative to build the first medical AI model with globally representative data. @pearsekeane.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social theophthalmologist.com/issues/2025/...

AI Without Borders

An international coalition aims to tackle health inequities with a globally representative retinal AI model

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For National Eye Health Week, we highlight the role of health data research in confronting the global epidemic of vision loss, affecting 2.2 billion people. Discover how NHS patient data is driving research into vision loss at INSIGHT at Moorfields, led by @pearsekeane.bsky.social bit.ly/48tdK01

An AI tool can accurately predict when young people with sight-threatening #kerataconus need treatment to prevent vision loss. Research led by @moorfields.bsky.social with INSIGHT, @ucleye.bsky.social supported by @nihr.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social Read more 🔗http://bit.ly/46sp5L8

A 'green' medical AI model can accurately diagnose eye disease using less than 1 percent of the computing power of existing AI, says a new study in @natcomms.nature.com The model was devised at @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social bit.ly/4mOHN6R #RETFoundGreen

Greener AI model costs less to accurately diagnose eye disease

In a step forward for sustainable medical artificial intelligence (AI), researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University College London (UCL) Institute of Ophthalmology, and Uni...

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An AI tool can spot signs of eye damage in patients taking the autoimmmune drug #Hydroxychloroquine, 2.5 years earlier than doctors. The AI was devised by the @pearsekeane.bsky.social lab at @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social with UK/US collaborators. Read more: bit.ly/45KOZcE

AI predicts eye damage from hydroxychloroquine retinopathy, years before symptoms appear

A novel AI tool could transform screening for patients taking hydroxychloroquine by spotting early signs of eye damage

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Among @royalsociety.org awards for 2025, @pearsekeane.bsky.social receives the Gabor Medal for his work at @ucleye.bsky.social, Moorfields Eye Hospital, @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social, developing AI-driven retinal image analysis for eye disease and #oculomics Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4mDN2Gq

We have created a step-by-step guide to applying for data through INSIGHT at Moorfields Eye Hospital - the world's largest ophthalmic bio-resource of more than 30 million eye images linked to clinical records. Find out more:🔗http://bit.ly/45tqn9F

Our partners at @insitro.bsky.social reflect on progress to build a drug discovery platform leveraging machine learning and data at scale. The mission is to identify new treatments, faster. As CEO Daphne Koller says, "patients are waiting". Read more about our collaboration 🔗https://bit.ly/3Jc3QFC

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7️⃣ years of using AI differently. That means looking where others don’t. . . or can’t.

Congratulations to our colleagues who have been awarded Glaucoma UK 2025 project grants. Using cutting-edge technology, their research is shedding new light on #glaucoma. Find out more🔗 buff.ly/FKTNSya @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfields.bsky.social #NIHRsupported

A review in @natureportfolio.nature.com reveals a widespread lack of transparency on performance and training data in regulator-approved #AI models used in eye care. 🔗 buff.ly/pzox5f5 #NIHRsupported @moorfields.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social @insighteyehub.bsky.social

As broadcast on @itvnews.bsky.social, journalist Kevin Ashford recently visited Moorfields Eye Hospital to report on 'AI for good'. He spoke with Shafi Balal and Josef Huemer, who work with the medical AI lab of @pearsekeane.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social. Find out more: 🔗http://bit.ly/4nTRhyu

We are working with @insitro.bsky.social to develop an AI foundation model capable of identifying novel targets in neurodegenerative and eye diseases. #oculomics How will it work, and what is the anticipated impact on patients? Find out here: 🔗https://www.insight.hdrhub.org/insitrocollaboration

insitro collaboration | INSIGHT

INSIGHT and insitro, a US biotech company, are collaborating to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model trained on INSIGHT’s vast repository of anonymised retinal imaging data at Moor...

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Researcher Shubhank Verma has shown that patients in areas of greater socioeconomic deprivation have retinal features suggestive of accelerated ageing. Shubhank is at the @pearsekeane.bsky.social AI lab @ucleye.bsky.social & Moorfields, enabled by INSIGHT. Read about this & more: bit.ly/4kkt01Z

Save the date: on Wed 23rd July @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social host an informal coffee session on inherited macular degeneration. ⬇️

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Join our Coffee Hour to explore how gene mutations cause #InheritedMacularDegeneration & about developing cutting-edge preventative technologies. All welcome – informal & interactive! When: Wed 23 July from 3-4pm, close the hospital 🔗 buff.ly/bSdOuyr @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfields.bsky.social