by ewoo670 | Feb 27, 2018 | SOVS Post
Auckland hosted the Retinal International Congress for the first time on 10-11 February. This was a conference where most of the participants had some form of visual impairment. Although largely organised by the Department of Ophthalmology, 15 students from Parts III...
by ewoo670 | Feb 27, 2018 | SOVS Post
On 8 February we were fortunate to be visited by Prof Michael Kalloniatis, Director of the Centre for Eye Health at the University of New South Wales and former Head of (the then) Department of Optometry & Vision Science. Prof Kalloniatis’ expertise is in retinal...
by ewoo670 | Feb 27, 2018 | SOVS Post
Manuela Bossi, a London-based PhD student supervised by Prof Steven Dakin, works on developing new therapies for childhood amblyopia (“lazy eye”). Her results indicate that children spending one hour per day watching specially modified 3D movies experience...
by ewoo670 | Feb 27, 2018 | SOVS Post
Dr Nabin Paudel has secured a position as postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Eye Research Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the control of myopia using low concentration (0.01%) Atropine eye drops. His long-term goal is to...
by ewoo670 | Feb 27, 2018 | SOVS Post
Dear Colleagues Welcome to the second issue of the SOVS newsletter for 2018. We have just completed Orientation and wish all our students the very best for their studies during the coming year. A warm welcome to Zaria Burden who has started as a Professional Teaching...
by nall486 | Jan 24, 2018 | SOVS Post
Below is our list of Summer Research Scholarships Projects. The best projects will be announced at the NZ-NEC Symposium held on 2 March 2018. Student Project Title Sungyeon Kim Effect of temperature on the thickness of the human ocular choroid measured with optical...
