BIOGRAPHY

Kanmin Xue, MB BChir PhD FRCOphth, is a Wellcome Trust clinician scientist fellow at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Vitreoretinal Surgeon at the Oxford Eye Hospital. He previously held the role of National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Lecturer in Oxford between 2014 and 2018, conducting laboratory and clinical research into gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases, robotic eye surgery and artificial retinal implant with Professor Robert MacLaren. He has completed the UK specialist training in ophthalmology and a vitreoretinal fellowship at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He previously conducted PhD research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge into how DNA editing brings about antibody class switching, underwent clinical training at Trinity College Cambridge, and pre-clinical training at Brasenose College Oxford, where he was awarded Martin Wronker Prize for the top First Class in Medicine.

AWARDS

Ruskell Medal 2019

Ian Fraser Cup 2017

Luigi Barca Award 2017

Martin Wronker Prize in Medicine 2003

Research

Kanmin leads the Retinal Disease and Repair Group investigating the mechanisms of retinal inflammation, degeneration and novel genetic therapies for retinal diseases. In association with Professor Robert MacLaren, he led the retinal gene therapy clinical trials for choroideremia and X-linked retinitis pigmentosa in Oxford and the world's first clinical trial of robot-assisted retinal surgery.

Team members

Laurel Chandler, DPhil candidate (Merton College Oxford)

Thomas Willis Poster Prize 2019

Oxford-Bristol-Cardiff-Southampton Alliance in Vision Research Best Poster Prize 2017

Past students

James Aylward, BM-BCh (St Hilda's College Oxford)

Dun Jack Fu, BM-BCh PhD (St Hugh's College Oxford)

Olivia Parham, FHS student 2016 (New College Oxford)

Howell Fu, FHS student 2015 (Exeter College Oxford)