Ground-Breaking Glaucoma Research, Diagnostics & Treatments
Glaucoma is frequently associated with excessive eye pressure. Prof. TO Chi-ho, who is the Henry G. Leong Professor in Elderly Vision Health, and his research team discovered the cellular transport system that produces eye pressure. This has exposed new cellular targets for the development of potent treatments for glaucoma.
A research team led by Associate Professors Dr DO Chi-wai and Dr Henry CHAN has also found that common traditional Chinese medicines such as baicalein and Lycium barbarum may have good therapeutic potential as anti-glaucoma agents because of their ocular hypotensive as well as neuroprotective effects.
For glaucoma diagnosis, multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) is a highly sensitive method. Another team led by Dr Chan has invented a major clinical protocol for mfERG measurement that significantly improves the sensitivity and specificity to over 90% for glaucoma diagnosis. This new protocol enables the detection of subtle damage at least three to four years earlier than all existing clinical tests can.
