BOptom PhD FAAO FACO GCOT
Head – Vision Optimisation Unit, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Department of Surgery (Ophthalmology) University of Melbourne
Dr Lauren Ayton is a clinician-scientist with research interests in retinal disease, low vision and vision restoration.
After completing her professional training in Optometry and a PhD at the University of Melbourne, Dr Ayton completed postdoctoral training in the area of ocular motor assessment in traumatic brain injury.
She then took a position at the Centre for Eye Research Australia, where she was the Bionic Eye Clinical Team Leader and worked on projects in age-related macular degeneration.
Currently, she is collaborating with Dr Thomas Edwards and Professor Keith Martin on exciting new gene therapy programs for inherited retinal degenerations.
With long-time collaborator, Professor Robyn Guymer (CERA), Dr Ayton is working on ways to communicate the most recent research findings in AMD to optometrists.