Dr Helena Lee
Clinician Scientist Fellow and Associate Professor in Ophthalmology, Associate Director for Emerging Therapies
Dr Lee is an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow and Associate Professor in Ophthalmology. Her research focuses on improving the vision of children with albinism and other retinal developmental disorders.
Her research focuses on developing disease-specific therapies which target neuroplasticity to modulate abnormal retinal development. She has been awarded £1.4 million by the Medical Research Council (MRC) for her work on the OLIVIA study, looking at the role of oral levodopa in improving visual development in infants and young children with albinism.