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Meet Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka
Enhancing the student experience and generating research outcomes that have an impact in both the pre-clinical and clinical research spaces is what drives Professor Wilkinson-Berka.
In her Diabetic Retinopathy Laboratory, researchers are focusing on how the adaptive immune system can be harnessed to prevent vision loss and blindness in pre-term children, diabetes and ageing. Professor Wilkinson-Berka’s pre-clinical research led to the discovery that the blockage of the hormone angiotensin II reduces retinal vascular disease, and this research contributed to the largest clinical trial on this topic in diabetic retinopathy.
Research can be a slow and sometimes frustrating endeavour, but when discoveries are made in the laboratory it makes the hard work worthwhile and these successes should be celebrated.