Prizes and Medals

Eithne Walls Medal

2021 Dr. Emily Greenan ‘Optimising the method for isolating ocular surface microRNA using impression cytology’
2020 Dr. Reinold Goetz ‘It’s a hard NOX life: unravelling the role of NOX4 in fibrosis in glaucoma’
2019 Dr. Alan Hopkins, ‘Fundus Fluorescein Angiography (FFA) in Human Subjects Displays Circadian Variation’
2018 Dr. Eoin Silke ‘Role of caspase inhibition in a model of dry age-related macular degeneration’
2017 Dr. Sinead Connolly ‘microRNA Nanomedicines in Sjogren’s Syndrome Dry Eye Disease’
2016Dr Ghaleb El-Farouki ‘Neutralising Interleukin-18 binding protein (IL18-BP) in a model of neo-vascular AMD
2015 Dr Maedbh Rhatigan ‘Negative Regulators of Inflammation and Age Related Macular Degeneration in an Irish Population’
2014 Dr Micheal O’Rourke ‘Non-Infectious Anterior Uveitis Cohort’
2013 Dr David Shahnazaryan ‘Role of ICPO viral protein in HSK’
2012 Dr Farahida Ibrahim ‘Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Using Manual and Automated 3 Step Grading of Fundus Photographs with Supplementary OCT in an OPDR Setting’
2011 Dr Mei Chuen Tay Winner ‘Audit of Uveal Melanoma in Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital’
2010 Dr Sorcha Ni Dhubhghaill Winner ‘The effects of acute cigarette smoke exposure on retinal pigment epithelial cells (ARPE-19)’

2021 Alison Greene ‘Methylation regulates Lysyl oxidase like 1 (LOXL1) expression in Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma’
2020 Dr. Justin Hintz ‘Correlating Radiological And Histological Staging Of Advanced Laryngeal Cancer’
2019 Dr. Bobby Tang, ‘Global ophthalmology: a novel approach to an old problem’
2018 Dr. Aoife Lavelle, ‘Quantifying the effect of flow rates on lignocaine disposition in a simulated adult airway using the Aerogen® Solo™ vibrating mesh nebulizer with the Optiflow™ system’
2017 Dr. Ghaleb El-Farouki, ‘Aqueous humor cytokine levels in patients with neo-vascular AMD over initial treatment course and in controls’
2016 Dr Sinéad Connolly, ‘Developing nanoparticle-based microRNA therapeutics in Sjogren’s Syndrome’
2015 Dr Micheal O’Rourke, ‘Dendritic cells in non-infectious anterior uveitis’
2014 Dr Max Treacy ‘Visual Acuity Charts’
2013 Dr Jeyanthi Kulasegarah ‘Prevalence of human papillomavirus in multiple synchronous or metachronous primary squamous cell carcinomas of the upper aerodigestive tract’
2012 Dr Sorcha Ni Dhubhghaill ‘Genetic & Demographic Risk Factor Profile in the Irish AMD Population’

2021 Tamer El Natout ‘What is the most common foreign body in the Ear?’
2020 Dr. Justin Hintz ‘Correlating Radiological And Histological Staging Of Advanced Laryngeal Cancer’
2019 Dr. Laura Loughlin, ‘Patterns of Recurrence and Surveillance Requirements for Human Papilloma Virus Positive Oropharyngeal
Squamous Cell Carcinoma’
2018 Dr. Jaime P Doody ‘The Design, Manufacture and Testing of a Composite Polysialic Acid Mimetic Peptide Loaded Collagen Nerve Graft for Use in Peripheral Nerve Repair’