Students visit ILCaMS labs for World Glaucoma Week
Dr Carl Sheridan and other ILCaMS researchers recently welcomed students from Birkenhead High School Sixth Form to the William Henry Duncan Building to take part in a lab tour to mark World Glaucoma Week.
World Glaucoma Week is held annually to spread awareness and understanding about the importance of early detection of glaucoma, the world’s second leading cause of blindness.
The students, aged 17 and 18, were given a tour of the labs to get a close-up look at the cutting-edge research eye and vision science researchers are carrying out to help tackle Glaucoma and other vision related diseases.
Dr Carl Sheridan was joined by PhD students Sami Alsherhri and Amer Binessa, as well as Dr David Robinson and Urszula Poplawska, as they gave students the opportunity to get hands-on with the equipment researchers use every day in their work, as well as understanding more about the research process.
Dr Sheridan said: “It's always a pleasure showcasing our research here in Liverpool to local students. It also allowed us to highlight the disease glaucoma which is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide.”
In addition to the visit, organisers arranged for the University's Active Learning Laboratory to be lit up green to help raise awareness for the week and the devastating disease.