Bonus - Eye health: The Invisible Pandemic

Invent: Health

We’re currently taking a short hiatus after our first season, where we covered everything from curing blindness to controlling pain; from making hospitals more sustainable to putting a hospital in your home. Before we come back with season two, our friends over at the Life Sciences team here at TTP are going to be dropping their very own series in the new year.

Invent: Life Sciences will be a series looking at all things biology - the efficacy of animal testing, the benefits of synthetic biology, even asking what the infamous team behind Theranos actually got right in terms of diagnostics.

But in the meantime, we wanted to give you some bonus content to whet your appetite for things to come and spread a bit of Christmas cheer. So here’s the full conversation from one of our favourite interviews of this series. In early November, we spoke with Dr. Pearse Keane for our episode on eyecare, looking at how the world’s top doctors and scientists are working to find ways to restore sight.

Dr. Pearse Keane is a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and an associate professor at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. In 2016, he initiated a formal collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind, with the aim of developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for the earlier detection and treatment of retinal disease. In May 2020, he jointly led work, again published in Nature Medicine, to develop an early warning system for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), by far the commonest cause of blindness in many countries. In October 2019, he was included on the Evening Standard Progress1000 list of most influential Londoners and in 2020 he was listed on the “The Power List” by The Ophthalmologist magazine, a ranking of the Top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology.
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