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Investing in digital innovation
Investing in digital
innovation
There is huge potential for digital
innovation in eye healthcare, from
using artificial intelligence (AI) to
Professor Pearse Keane
advance our understanding of disease
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
biology to developing new treatments.
Significant investment is needed to
apply advances in AI to clinical practice.
Through our new grants strategy, we
will fund research into digital solutions to
prevent, detect and treat sight loss. This
will drive groundbreaking innovation which
could transform eye healthcare in the future.
Moorfields has been at the forefront of
using AI to improve eye healthcare for
many years. If AI could be made more
accessible to eye health professionals
without computer programming expertise,
there is the potential for more clinicians to
use AI to analyse patient data and provide
a faster diagnosis.
Infrastructure
We have previously funded AI projects led
by Pearse Keane, professor of artificial
medical intelligence at UCL Institute
Research excellence
and high-quality
patient care
needs state of the
art facilities and
equipment. We will
continue to fund the
best infrastructure
necessary for our
researchers and
clinicians to succeed,
and for patients
to receive the
highest standards of
healthcare.
of Ophthalmology and consultant
ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye
Hospital. Supported by a Moorfields Eye
Charity Springboard Award, Professor
Keane successfully developed a new AI
algorithm (training AI to process, analyse
and interpret information) for analysing
medical images to diagnose eye diseases.
Since then, Pearse has established
INSIGHT, the eye and oculomics health
data research hub at Moorfields, and in
2025, Professor Keane was awarded the
Royal Society’s Gabor medal for pioneering
retinal imaging research driven by AI.
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