2025 Joanne G. Angle Award

Sir Peng T. Khaw

MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCP, FRCOphth, FRSB, FCOptom, Hon DSc, FARVO, FMedSci

This year, Sir Peng Tee Khaw will be presented with the Joanne G. Angle Award — ARVO's highest service honor, celebrating an outstanding leader who has made significant contributions in support of the Association's mission to advance research worldwide into understanding the visual system and preventing, treating and curing its disorders.

Professor at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital (London, UK), Sir Peng has a special interest in the surgical treatment of glaucoma — the most common cause of irreversible blindness. Through research his group has developed and refined surgical techniques (Moorfields Safer Surgery System), microdevices, and treatments to prevent scarring and increase the efficacy and safety of surgery worldwide, incluiding developing countries. They have proposed the 10-10-10 goal for surgery (i.e., pressure of 10mmHg that lasts 10 years and takes 10 minutes) and have co-discovered the novel Moorfields-IO Müller stem cell, which is being developed for optic nerve regeneration. Sir Peng is founder Director of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields and UCL of Ophthalmology — the only single speciality UK national centre. The joint site is currently one of the highest ranked sites for ophthalmology research in the world.

An ARVO member for over 20 years, Sir Peng was the first UK president of ARVO (2012 - 2013), selecting the theme 'Life-changing research' for the 2013 Annual Meeeting. He sat down recently with ARVONews to discuss his passionate belief that scientific research, facilitated by organisations like ARVO, will enable us to achieve new and better treatments to change lives for the better around the world. Plus, why advocacy for research is vital now, more than ever.