The Brien Holden Vision Institute has an active science discipline, with a wide range of projects looking at issues in ocular health and vision correction. A particular focus is the development of anti-bacterial contact lenses and other materials and a number of projects are investigating and evaluating novel approaches in these areas.
Current postgraduate students
- Ben Ashby: Role of bovine lactoferrin constituent peptides in corneal wound healing
- Man Hei Choy: Determination of virulence characteristics and antibiotic resistance of ocular isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Jaya Dantam: Evaluation of antibacterial contact lens cases
- Shamila Khan: Exploring pathogenic mechanisms of Staph. aureus keratitis
- Preeji Mandathara: Dispensing clinical evaluation of anti-bacterial contact lenses
- Thein Zaw Oo: Use of bovine lactoferrin and lactoferricin in adjunct to antibiotics to treat corneal infection
- Ushasree Pattamatta: Role of bovine lactoferrin in epithelial wound healing
- Andrea Petznick: The expression of wound healing markers in response to corneal wounding
- Riaz Rasul: Novel antimicrobial biomaterials
- Aidin Safvati: Biochemical mediators of neovascularisation and their possible role in hypoxic cornea
- Eric Wei: A comparison of tear films between human and experimental animals: implications for ocular comfort
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