Prof. Dr. Mariya Moosajee is a consultant ophthalmologist in genetic eye disease at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, a professor of molecular ophthalmology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and a group leader of ocular genomics and therapeutics at the Francis Crick Institute in London. She graduated with first-class honours in biochemistry and molecular genetics in 2000, medicine (MBBS) in 2003, and was awarded her PhD in molecular ophthalmology in 2009, all from Imperial College London. In 2011, she was awarded an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. In 2015, she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and undertook her clinical fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Retinal Genetics at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious five-year Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Development Fellowship to unravel the molecular complexity behind ocular maldevelopment and normal human eye development. Alongside this, she has also received an NIHR Rare Disease Translational Research Collaboration Award to support the translation of small-molecule drugs for the treatment of inherited retinal diseases such as Choroideremia and Usher syndrome.