Open AccessLaw, Ethics, Religion, and Clinical Translation in the 21 st Century – A Discussion with Pete Coffey
Author(s) -
Lako Majlinda,
Trounson Alan,
Daher Susan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
stem cells
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.159
H-Index - 229
eISSN - 1549-4918
pISSN - 1066-5099
DOI - 10.1002/stem.414
Subject(s) - biology , translation (biology) , law , engineering ethics , genetics , political science , engineering , messenger rna , gene
Prof. Coffey received a B.Sc. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex in 1986 and then went on to earn his D.Phil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1995. On completing his doctoral work, Prof. Coffey joined the faculty at Oxford University in the Department of Experimental Psychology. In 1989 he was awarded a Robert and Joan Case Royal Society Research Fellowship, and at the same time moved to the University of Sheffield, subsequently becoming a lecturer and senior lecturer before moving to London in 2004. Prof. Coffey is now Chair of Cellular Therapies and Visual Sciences at the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London. He is also Research Head of the Department of Ocular Biology and Therapeutics. Among his many achievements, he has done seminal work on retinal transplantation, he is the principle author and co-author of two landmark papers demonstrating the use of human cells to halt visual deterioration in models of agerelated macular degeneration, he developed the first transplant strategy to treat inherited macular degeneration, and he has developed a cell-based therapy for age-related macular degeneration. He also helped launch, and is now the Director of, the London Project to Cure Blindness.