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2025 Joanne G. Angle Award

 

Sir Peng KhawSir Peng T. Khaw

MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCP, FRCOphth, FRSB, FCOptom, Hon DSc, FARVO, FMedSci

 

This year, Sir Peng Tee Khaw will be presented with the Joanne G. Angle Award — ARVO's highest service honor, celebrating an outstanding leader who has made significant contributions in support of the Association's mission to advance research worldwide into understanding the visual system and preventing, treating and curing its disorders.

 

Professor of Ophthalmology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital (London, UK), Sir Khaw has a special interest in the surgical treatment of glaucoma — the most common cause of irreversible blindness. Through research his group has developed and refined surgical techniques (Moorfields Safer Surgery System), microdevices, and treatments to prevent scarring and increase the efficacy and safety of surgery worldwide, incluiding developing countries. They have proposed the 10-10-10 goal for surgery (i.e., pressure of 10mmHg that lasts 10 years and takes 10 minutes) and have co-discovered the novel Moorfields-IO Müller stem cell, which is being developed for optic nerve regeneration. Sir Khaw was founder Director of the UK National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields and UCL of Ophthalmology — the only single speciality UK national centre. The joint site is currently one of the highest ranked sites for ophthalmology research in the world.

 

An ARVO member for over 20 years, Sir Khaw was the first UK president of ARVO (2012 - 2013). He sat down recently with ARVONews to discuss his passionate belief that scientific research, facilitated by organisations like ARVO, will enable us to achieve new and better treatments to change lives for the better around the world.

 

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About Sir Peng T. Khaw

Sir Khaw has published over 600 papers, chapters and books; delivered over 36 national and international named lectures, and won over 12 international prizes and awards. He has raised grants of over US$150 million, including raising funding for building the world’s largest eye clinical research centre and children’s eye hospital. Sir Khaw was a member of the scientific board of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee trust which helped eliminate Trachoma — the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide — in several Commonwealth countries. He was elected to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002, NIHR Senior Investigator in 2009, and was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013 for services to ophthalmology — the second such recognition in the past 100 years.