Research Centre

Our patients benefit by receiving the most advanced treatment available anywhere in the world. In many cases, patients with specific eye disorders are given access to new treatments before they are available to the general public.

Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti
The central focus of the general immunology research in Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti’s group at LEI is to determine the key cellular and molecular interactions that occur in response to viral infection.

Professor David Mackey
Professor David Mackey oversees LEI’s Clinical Genetics and Epidemiology department. He has spent 20 years studying the genetics of the optic nerve, with Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy the topic of his doctoral thesis.

Dr Livia Carvalho
Building on over 10 years of collaborative research that started when Dr Carvalho pursed her PhD studies in Professor Hunt’s lab at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London, they are now working towards creating novel research platforms within the LEI to study inherited retinal degeneration, gene therapy and neuroprotective treatment approaches and photoreceptor cell death mechanisms.

Dr. Fred K Chen
Dr Fred Chen heads the Ocular Tissue Engineering Laboratory and the Functional Ocular Imaging Laboratory. He has gained international recognition in the field of retinal pigment epithelium transplantation, retinal-tracking microperimetry and spectral domain optical coherence tomography.

Assoc. Professor Angus Turner
Lions Outback Vision is directed by Associate Professor Angus Turner and aims to improve eye health in rural and remote Western Australian communities.

The Lions Eye Institute is passionate about improving our understanding on the nature of eye diseases.

• Fellowships
• Bachelor of Science: Honours Program
• Postgraduate Research Program