Affiliation: University College London Institute of Ophthalmology

Dr. Eskandarpour is a basic/translational scientist at University College London (UCL) in the Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK since 2013. As a senior research fellow, she investigates ocular inflammatory diseases and the mechanisms of disease development and progression. Her main focus is on immune pathways involved in ocular disease and the effects of micro-environmental changes in immune responses within the immune privilege eye. To answer her science based questions she applies in vitro, and ex vivo models and uses high technology approaches to monitor disease progression in animal models. She completed a PhD programme in Molecular Genetics at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and received a BSc and MSc in Cell and Molecular biology at University of Tehran.