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Impact Report 2026
Strategic objective 2:
Be the leading charity for
eye health research
Moorfields Eye Charity is helping
drive progress in eye health by
investing in talented researchers,
pioneering studies and innovative
approaches to patient care.
Together, these investments are
accelerating discoveries that could
transform the lives of people
affected by sight loss.
Ola Krzywańska reviewing images from the lab
Supporting the researchers shaping the future of sight
Research excellence starts
In Professor Ryan MacDonald’s
Because the fish ages rapidly,
with people. By funding PhD
laboratory at the UCL Institute
it offers a unique opportunity
studentships, Moorfields Eye
of Ophthalmology, PhD
to study the retina
Charity is helping talented
student Ola Krzywańska is
throughout its lifespan and
early-career researchers
helping establish the
better understand why age is
pursue ambitious ideas,
African turquoise killifish as a
such a significant risk factor
develop specialist expertise
novel model for retinal
for eye disease.
and drive discoveries that
ageing research.
could improve the lives of
people affected by sight loss.
This year, charity-funded
PhD students have advanced
research in areas of
significant unmet need, from
understanding retinal ageing
to exploring how damaged
blood vessels in the eye can
be repaired.
The African turquoise killifish
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