Alun Barnard

After completing a BSc in Biology at Imperial College London, Alun gained a PhD in Neuroscience from the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester. Following a career development fellowship at the Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell, he joined the University of Oxford in 2009. Currently he is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in a group dedicated to finding new treatments for blindness, particularly in patients with incurable retinal diseases, through clinical and laboratory research.