Professor Chris Hammond

Trustee

Prof Chris Hammond is a clinician scientist and the Frost Professor of Ophthalmology at King’s College London, as well as a consultant ophthalmologist at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

His research aims to understand the causes (both genetic and environmental) of common eye diseases including myopia, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, cataract and dry eye. He studies the TwinsUK cohort based at St Thomas’ Hospital, as well as other large population-based studies such as the UK Biobank study, and collaborates with other international researchers to identify markers of disease and to identify new targets for treatment.

As a clinician, his specialty is paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus (squint) and he is a key opinion leader in treatments to try to slow myopia progression in children.