Keith Martin

About Keith Martin

Keith Martin

Professor of Ophthalmology, Cambridge University

Keith Martin is a medical researcher specializing in the treatment of glaucoma and, according to a nominator, “one of the leading clinician scientists of his generation.” He is the first Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Cambridge, and he established the Glaucoma Research Laboratory there in 2005 in order to study the mechanisms of retinal ganglion cell death in glaucoma, and to develop new treatments using stem cell, gene therapy and RPE cell transplantation approaches.