Dr Jennifer Fan Gaskin leads ocular fibrosis research at CERA and is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH).

She was awarded the prestigious Clinical Research Training Fellowship (Health Research Council NZ) in 2007 for her Doctorate in Medicine research (Keratoconus: Novel Investigations of the Diseased Cornea).

Following vocational training, she undertook two years of glaucoma fellowships (2013–2014) in Auckland and Melbourne respectively, and was actively recruited to join the Glaucoma Unit at RVEEH and CERA.

Dr Fan Gaskin’s current research focus is on developing an effective and safe method of controlling postoperative scarring in glaucoma surgery to prevent glaucoma blindness. She is also working on preventing fibrosis in other eye diseases such as macular degeneration and proliferative vitreoretinopathy.

She is active in teaching ophthalmology registrars and glaucoma fellows at RVEEH. She has also supervised two University of Melbourne (UoM) Masters students (MPhil, MBiotech), two UoM Bachelor of Science Honours students and four UoM MD Elective students.

Dr Fan Gaskin serves on many executive and scientific boards, including the Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society, Glaucoma Australia, the RANZCO Scientific Programme Executive Committee and Australian Vision Research, for which she is the Secretarial Director. She is also a Glaucoma Section Editor for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology – currently ranked 8th in Journal Impact Factor out of 95 Ophthalmology Journals. In 2021, she was named one of Science and Technology Australia’s Superstars of STEM.