UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Professor Susan M. Downs, MBCHB, MSC, MDR, FRCO, PHH Professor Susan Downes has been a consultant at the Oxford Eye Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, University NHS Foundation Trust since 2000.

She completed post-residency clinical and research fellowships in medical retina at Moorfields Eye Hospital, during which she obtained a higher degree, MD 2000, in inherited retinal degeneration, IRD, at the Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

She is a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oxford.

Susan was awarded a gold medal by the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust for Outstanding Achievement 2014 and was in the 2021 top list of Women in European Vision Research and Ophthalmology.

Where were you before?

Before that I was at UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology where I was doing a fully computational postdoc looking at metabolic modeling of the retina.

Were you actually coming from the life science and your studies originally as that sort of path or did you change track in order to get into research software engineering in life sciences?

Yeah, so I've done many different things throughout my academic career.