Selected Portfolio of Research Studies and Projects

 


 

 

ATHENA

A study looking at the accuracy of using optical coherence tomography angiography for diagnosing and classifying neovascular age-related macular degeneration in comparison with conventional dye-based retinal angiography.

ASTUTE

Adalimumab vs placebo as add-on to Standard Therapy for autoimmune Uveitis: Tolerability, Effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness: a randomized controlled trial.​

TIGER

The TIGER study is a pan-European multi-hospital phase III, double-masked, randomised surgical trial investigating whether performing a Vitrectomy, injecting TPA and gas in addition to regular injections of anti-VEGF (in this case Eylea®) will improve vision over injections of anti-VEGF alone which is considered standard of care.​

STAR

STAR is a Phase III, randomised, double-masked, sham-controlled clinical trial of SRT. STAR aims to recruit 411 UK participants with active wet AMD, randomised 2:1 to SRT plus as needed (PRN) ranibizumab (Lucentis®) versus as needed ranibizumab monotherapy.​

Malarial Retinopathy 

Retinal findings in patients with cerebral malaria carry prognostic information; in conjunction with researchers from the University of Liverpool, working on a project in malaria, LORC is providing ground truth annotations for OCT features.

Eye2Gene

Eye2Gene is a research project based at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and University College London. Our aim is to engineer artificial intelligence that can understand eye scans. It will then predict which inherited retinal disease the patient has. Once tested, Eye2Gene can help make decisions about their care.​

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) Genetic susceptibility

LORC is involved in delivering a retinal monitoring service for patients on hydroxychloroquine therapy. Suitable study patients with and without HCQ retinal toxicity have been identified and recruited into this study.

Retinal Vasculitis

Study

Retinal Vasculitis I: Validating Clinician Grading and Developing Automated Grading.

Commercial

Commercial project working on ground truth artificial intelligence (AI) on Colour fundus imaging for diabetic patients.

SORT DR Project

ETDRS grading for Chinese cohort with a diagnosis of diabetes.

PROM

Export of OPTOS Colour Fundus and OCT imaging for patient outcome project.

AMD in Diabetic

Retinopathy

Five-Year Incidence and Progression of Age-related Macular Degeneration in People with Diabetes.

FASBAT

The primary aim of the FASBAT study is to follow those patients who develop nvAMD in their second eye, to look at the change in fibrosis and Sub retinal Highly Reflective Material (SHRM) in the initial nvAMD eye following commencement of anti-VEGF therapy and to compare this to the rate of change of fibrosis and SHRM in the fellow eye in patients who convert in this eye. 

EDMMO

OCT-based qualitative and quantitative assessment in diabetic patients.

Commercial

Malarial Retinopathy NIH project - Grading Colour Fundus imaging to provide ground truth.

TAGS

Treatment of Advanced Glaucoma Study (TAGS): A multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing primary medical treatment with primary trabeculectomy for people with newly diagnosed advanced glaucoma. 

Commercial

Commercial project working on ground truth artificial intelligence (AI) on OCT imaging for diabetic and neovascular AMD patients.

IVAN Follow-up

5yr follow-up from the IVAN study.

VICI

Eplerenone for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy in patients with active, previously untreated disease for more than 4 months (VICI): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

EDNA

The Early Detection of Neovascular Age-related macular degeneration (EDNA) study HTA - 12/142/07

UK Biobank

UK Biobank is a community-based prospective cohort study reviewing colour fundus and OCT imaging.

SIGSAM

SIGSAM (Glaucoma and handheld imaging machines) study.

CLARITY

Clinical Efficacy and Mechanistic Evaluation of Aflibercept for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (acronym CLARITY). EME - 12/66/15

RDP

Randomized trial of widefield guided PRP for diabetic macular oedema (DMO) treated with Ranibizumab. (Ranibizumab for DMO PRP trial). UKCRN ID 15819

IVAN GA

A small continuation of the IVAN Study reviewing Geographic Atrophy in the cohort of patients.

LEAVO

A Multicentre Phase III Double-masked Randomised Controlled Non-Inferiority Trial comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of intravitreal therapy with ranibizumab (Lucentis) vs aflibercept (Eylea) vs bevacizumab (Avastin) for Macular Oedema due to Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO).  HTA - 11/92/03

EAGLE

The effectiveness of early lens extraction with intraocular lens implantation for the treatment of primary angle-closure glaucoma (EAGLE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. ISRCTN44464607

RELIGHT

Ranibizumab Treatment of Diabetic Macular Oedema With Bimonthly Monitoring After a Phase of Initial Treatment (RELIGHT). NCT01257815

BEAP

The Bridlington Eye Assessment Project (BEAP) Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Study: Characterising Phenotypes and Genotypes in a UK Population.

Malarial Retinopathy

Study

Malarial Retinopathy Study with patients from Malawi, local Liverpool study with University of Liverpool, Dept. of Eye and Vision Science and Wellcome Trust.

TANDEM

A randomised controlled trial of high and low dose Avastin® for Neovascular Macular Degeneration in the East Midlands. REC Reference 09/H0406/86

DR Hong Kong

External validation of images for the Hong Kong Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme.

Motion-free Stereo

Fluorescein Angiogram

(FA) Sequence

To describe and evaluate a technique for aligning stereoscopic image pairs in fluorescein angiogram sequences for better visualisation and interpretation of lesion components in FAs.

MEROT

A Randomised Controlled Trial of Epimacular Brachytherapy Versus Ranibizumab.

ORAYA

INTREPID - IRay Plus Anti-VEGF Treatment For Patients With Wet AMD. NCT01016873 (CLH002)

ISMO

Improving the value of screening for diabetic macular oedema using surrogate photographic markers. (HTA 06/402/49)

IVAN

A randomised controlled trial of alternative treatments to Inhibit VEGF in Age-related choroidal Neovascularisation (IVAN). To compare the efficacy and safety of ranibizumab and bevacizumab intravitreal injections to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). HTA - 07/36/01

NICOLA

Northern Ireland Cohort Longitudinal Study on Ageing.

SolDR

Effect of Choline Fenofibrate (ABT-335 /SLV348) on Macular Edema Measured by Optical Coherence Tomography in Subjects with Diabetic Macular Edema - a one-year, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Study.

ABC AVASTIN

The ABC Trial - A Randomised, Double-Masked Phase III Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Avastin® (Bevacizumab) Intravitreal Injections Compared to Standard Therapy in Subjects With Choroidal Neovascularisation (CNV) Secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).

VPDT Cohort

Verteporfin photodynamic therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: cohort study for the UK.

ARIA

Automated retinal image analysis project, to annotate retinal vessels in colour fundus imaging.