Associate Professor Lauren Ayton is a Principal Research Fellow at CERA, with research interests in inherited retinal disease and gene therapy.

Fleur O’Hare is a clinician-researcher and the Retinal Gene Therapy Unit Manager at CERA.

CERA researchers and surgeons from the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital have joined forces to deliver Australia’s first investigational gene therapy for ‘dry’ age-related macular degeneration.

Retinal gene therapy researchers are developing a potential gene therapy to ‘melt’ the crystals on the retina which impair vision in people with Bietti’s crystalline ydstrophy.