Watch pioneering ocular gene therapy researcher Professor Jean Bennett present an enlightening presentation about the sight-saving potential of gene therapy at the 15th annual Gerard Crock Lecture.

The Gerard Crock Lecture series honours the memory of renowned ophthalmologist, the late Professor Gerard Crock, inaugural Ringland Anderson Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Bennett is an international authority on the development of gene therapies to treat inherited retinal diseases, which are the most common cause of blindness in working-age people.

She has received numerous international awards including the prestigious Champalimaud Vision Award.

Professor Bennett shares her story leading pivotal research that led to the development of the world’s first approved ocular gene therapy – Luxturna, a treatment for a rare genetic form of childhood blindness Leber Congenital Amaurosis.