Mr Geraint Williams, University of Birmingham. 'Investigating the role of the immune system in chronic ocular surface disease.'

12:45pm - 2:00pm / Wednesday 19th October 2016
Type: Seminar / Category: Research / Series: Institute of Ageing & Chronic Disease seminar series
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Mr. Geraint Williams MBBCh BSc PhD FRCOphth
Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham

Title of Talk: Investigating the role of the immune system in chronic ocular surface disease

Biography: Geraint is a consultant ophthalmologist specialising in cornea and external disease. His research interests include ocular surface immunity and infection, including chronic scarring diseases such as Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid and Herpes Simplex Keratitis.

He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellowship and completed his PhD in Immune Regulation of Acquired Ocular Immunobullous Disease and was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology at the University of Birmingham. He subsequently combined his research work at the Singapore Eye Research Institute with his clinical fellowship in the cornea and external eye disease department of the Singapore National Eye Centre.