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Mariya Moosajee is a Professor of Molecular Ophthalmology at University College London and a Group Leader in Ocular Genomics Therapeutics at the Francis Crick Institute, London. She is an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist specializing in Genetic Eye Disease at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Mariya completed her MBBS and BSc with class honors in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in 2000 from Imperial College London, followed by a PhD in Molecular Ophthalmology in 2009. After finishing her Ophthalmology Specialist Training within the London Deanery in 2011, she was awarded the NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship and established her research group in the department of Ocular Biology and Therapeutics. Mariya's research has focused on the molecular etiology and disease mechanisms causing congenital eye anomalies and inherited retinal diseases, with an emphasis on developing novel molecular therapies for genetic eye diseases and clinical translation. She has received several prestigious awards including the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Development Fellowship in 2016 and the NIHR Rare Disease Translational Research Collaboration Award. Her ultimate goal is to enhance the lives of patients with genetic eye diseases by improving molecular diagnosis, understanding the natural history of diseases, and developing effective treatments.
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology • London, England
Specializes in Development, Ageing, and Disease.