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Impact Report 2026
Breakfast briefings bring supporters
closer to breakthrough research
Moorfields Eye Charity
The initiative, made possible
continues to connect donors
by the generous donors who
and supporters with the
supported this work, funds
pioneering research they help
11 studies aimed at closing
make possible through its online
the paediatric eye research
breakfast briefing events.
gap and improving lifelong
outcomes for children.
These behind-the-scenes
Speaking about the need for
sessions offer unique insights
innovation in children’s eye
into the latest advances in
health, Professor Dahlmann-
eye health, bringing together
Noor said:
leading researchers,
clinicians and supporters to
Professor Maryse Bailly, Professor Annegret Dahlma
Inside the Hoxton
Diagnostic Hub
Paediatric eye care is
explore how philanthropy
a huge global challenge.
A second breakfast briefing
is driving innovation and
It is wonderful that here
took supporters inside
accelerating progress.
at Moorfields, thanks to
Moorfields’ Hoxton Diagnostic
Moorfields Eye Charity and
Hub, where Professor Paul
At one event, supporters
the donors, we have the
Foster shared how research
heard from Professor Annegret
opportunity to contribute
funded by the charity has helped
Dahlmann-Noor and Professor
to developing new tests,
transform glaucoma care.
Maryse Bailly, both from the
new treatments and
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology,
implementing those for the
With more than one million
about research into childhood
benefit of the children and
people in the UK now
eye conditions, supported by the
their families.
living with glaucoma, new
charity through a £3.1 million
approaches are essential to
funding partnership with the
Supporters also learned how
meet growing demand for
Medical Research Foundation.
charity-funded research
diagnosis, treatment and long-
is helping scientists better
term care.
understand myopia. Professor
Bailly is creating mini tissues in
Through Project HERCULES,
the laboratory from cells taken
Moorfields developed innovative
from children with and without
community based diagnostics
myopia, helping to develop
that are already helping services
new tools for diagnosis and
respond to this challenge
treatment development.
while advancing the NHS
10-Year Plan’s ambitions for
Hoxton Diagnostic Hub
She described the work as
personalised, digitally enabled
“groundbreaking research”,
and community-based care.
adding:
Professor Foster said:
Through this
One of the components of
understanding, we’ll get
that plan is the refocusing
new markers, we’ll get new
from treatment to prevention,
targets for treatment.
and by monitoring people
at higher risk, we’re able to
detect and then intervene
very quickly if we think
Professor Paul Foster and Robert Dufton
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they’re getting a disease.
