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Jasleen Kaur Jolly

University of Oxford

Position

Research Scientist

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Gene therapy, outcome measures, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, genetic eye disease, visual cortex

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ox.ac.uk

Jasleen Kaur Jolly is an optometrist working between the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Wellcome Integrative Neuroimaging Centre, University of Oxford, and Oxford Eye Hospital. She studied at Cardiff University, the University of Manchester, and Oxford University (Merton College) working across the world in various settings to gain a wide range of experience, including electrophysiology. She is actively involved in clinical research in the fields of retinal gene therapy, the surgical outcomes, the relationship between the eye and the brain in visual processing, and low vision. Her main interest is improving outcome measures following interventions for ophthalmic diseases and promoting a career in clinical translational research for optometrists embedded in multidisciplinary teams.

She won the NIHR Thames Valley Health Research Award 2016 for "Outstanding Research Practitioner", and the College of Optometrists Philip Cole Prize for Practice Based Research in November 2018.