Academic Unit of Ophthalmology


Who we are

The Academic Unit of Ophthalmology of the University of Birmingham is part of the School of Immunity and Infection (Head: Prof. Eric Jenkinson), College of Medical and Dental Sciences (Head: Prof. Lawrence Young).

Our group includes: Myself, Si Rauz (Clinical Senior Lecturer), Graham Wallace and John Curnow (both Non-clinical Senior Lecturers), Alastair Denniston (NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer), Paul Tomlins (Clinical Lecturer), Geraint Williams (Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow/PhD Student), Matt Edmunds (Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow/PhD Student), Kadambari Oswal (Junior Research Fellow), Jawaher Al-Salem, Sherine Kottoor, Siobhan Restorick (PhD Students), Emma Yates (Research Associate), Maged Nessim (MD student), Radhika Susarla, Annelise Soulier (Post-docs) with technical help from Charlie Shaikh, Immunosuppression Nurse (tba), Research Nurse Ranjit Gidda, and secretarial support from Jenny Hudson, Kate Martin and Anna Beckett.

To see our publications please use
PubMed and search on: murray pi, rauz s, wallace gr, curnow sj.

Where we are

BMECLabSeminarIBR photo

We are based on the 1st Floor of the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (BMEC) on the site of City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, and on the 3rd Floor of the Institute of Biomedical Research (IBR), University of Birmingham, Edgbaston.

The top left picture is BMEC and the next two pictures are part of our Unit there. The far right picture is the IBR.


What we do


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