Professor Lotery
In 2004 Professor Andrew Lotery was one of a team of researchers who discovered the first gene 
to be linked to AMD. This was a world-leading medical breakthrough and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prestigious medical publications in the world. As a result of this breakthrough, Professor Lotery and his research team are hopeful that they will find a cure for AMD within the next 10 years, if sufficient funding is obtained.
The aims of Professor Lotery’s laboratory are the following:
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To perform world class research to help alleviate blindness
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To achieve this by attracting sufficient funding to allow the research to proceed quickly
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To train the next generation of academic ophthalmologists and visual scientists
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To disseminate our research findings in leading research journals
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To work as a team to achieve these goals
Professor Lotery currently has several junior ophthalmologists training in the Gift of Sight Research Centre so that they too may become clinician scientists. A prestigious MRC training fellowship has been secured for Dr Jay Self, who is studying a disorder called congenital nystagmus.
Future research
Glaucoma is also a major cause of blindness and treatments are limited and not always effective. Currently we have collected DNA samples from over 500 patients with primary open angle glaucoma. These patient samples will be used to identify novel glaucoma genes, drug targets and treatments.