If you had asked me on my BOptom graduation day what I thought I’d be working on in five years’ time, I would not have imagined it would be a clinical trial with a team of neurologists and endocrinologists, using the cornea as a marker to evaluate new treatments for peripheral nerve disease in diabetes. Yet this is now the focus of my day, working towards my PhD degree in the Downie Laboratory: Anterior Eye, Clinical Trials and Research Translation Unit in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne, supervised by Dr Laura Downie (University of Melbourne) and A/Prof Jennifer Craig (University of Auckland).
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