RETINA UK - Key Persons


Alison Hardcastle

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Molecular Genetics, University College London

Amelia Burton

Job Titles:
  • Trust and Foundations Fundraiser

Andrea Cusumano

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Professor and Researcher

Angie Baum

Job Titles:
  • Development Intern

Aysha Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Research Intern

Clare Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Fundraising Administrator

Denise Rawden

Job Titles:
  • Information and Support Manager

Dr Carmel Toomes

Job Titles:
  • Vice - Chair
Associate Professor, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds

Dr Nikolas Pontikos

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Dr Nikolas Pontikos is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and has been working on inherited retinal conditions for several years.

Dr Rachel Taylor

Dr Rachel Taylor is part of the UK Inherited Retinal Dystrophy Consortium (UKIRDC) team at the University of Manchester.

Hajrah Sarkar

Job Titles:
  • Student

James Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Events and Community Fundraising

Jane Farrar

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin

Jane Russell

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager

Jenny Dewing

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Jenny Dewing is a postdoctoral researcher working on a Retina UK-funded project with Dr Arjuna Ratnayaka at the University of Southampton.

Jing Yu

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Jing Yu is a Research Assistant at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Jo Faulkner-Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Head of Fundraising

Jod S Mehta

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor in Clinical Innovation in Ophthalmology, Singapore National Eye Centre
  • Professor

Judy Baughan

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Kate Arkell

Job Titles:
  • Research Development Manager

Kate Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Laura Iannone

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Lauren Osborne-Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Events and Digital

Lily Powell

Job Titles:
  • Individual Giving & Corporate Manager

Luminita Paraoan

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader
  • Professor

Lynda Cantor

Lynda Cantor was a founder member of the charity in 1975 and one of our original trustees

Margaret Williams

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Mark Baxter

Job Titles:
  • Information and Support Coordinator

Matthew Carr

Job Titles:
  • Information and Support Manager

Melanie Vicarage

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Miranda Rodrigo

Job Titles:
  • Executive PA / HR Manager

Paula McGrath

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chief Executive

Prof John Marshall

Prof John Marshall is the Frost Professor of Ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London.

Sobha Sivaprasad

Job Titles:
  • Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital
  • Professor

Tina Garvey - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive

Vanessa Davis

Job Titles:
  • Development Manager
  • General Counsel at the Alan Turing Institute
Vanessa is the General Counsel at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national data science and artificial intelligence research institute.