A new world-leading eye clinical trials centre will give Victorians facing vision loss and blindness greater access to innovative, sight-saving treatments.

Taking methods developed by astronomers to discover distant galaxies and adapting them to image the eye, CERA researchers are revealing hidden signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

New funding from the Medical Research Future Fund will see research aiming to regenerate lost retinal cells enter an exciting new phase.

CERA, the University of Melbourne and WEHI are completing world-first work on their five-year mission to unlock the secrets of a high-risk form of age-related macular degeneration.

New research has linked drinking coffee and tea to increased macular retinal nerve fibre layer thickness – which could be an indicator of our brain health.