Contact information
Susan Downes
MD, FRCOphth
Professor of Ophthalmology
- Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
- Senior Research Fellow
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology
Susan Downes is the Clinical Network Lead for Ophthalmology research in the Thames Valley and Clinical research Lead for Ophthalmology in the new Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi).
Research
Susie researches inherited retinal degeneration and phenotype genotype correlation as well as treatment of age related macular degeneration and central serous chorioretinopathy and sleep studies in ocular disease, She has collaborative links worldwide in these fields with research and training.
Recent publications
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EFFICACY OF HALF-DOSE PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY VERSUS HIGH-DENSITY SUBTHRESHOLD MICROPULSE LASER FOR TREATING PIGMENT EPITHELIAL DETACHMENTS IN CHRONIC CENTRAL SEROUS CHORIORETINOPATHY
Journal article
Feenstra HMA. et al, (2022), Retina, 42, 721 - 729
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The Natural History of Leber Congenital Amaurosis and Cone-Rod Dystrophy Associated with Variants in the GUCY2D Gene.
Journal article
Hahn LC. et al, (2022), Ophthalmol Retina
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The need for widely available genomic testing in rare eye diseases: an ERN-EYE position statement
Journal article
Black GC. et al, (2021), Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 16
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Whole genome sequencing in a Knobloch syndrome family confirms the molecular diagnosis.
Journal article
Patel CK. et al, (2021), Ophthalmic Genet, 1 - 9
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SVRare: discovering disease-causing structural variants in the 100K Genomes Project
Yu J. et al, (2021)