The Singapore Eye Research Institute now has grants to develop artificial intelligence in treating eye diseases.
Research is a journey, often without a defined end. Yet with every project, more questions get uncovered and that can open up new fields and new methods and lead to potentially great rewards. Judith Tan speaks to three award-winning scientists and a five-star research team about what keeps them going.
In 1997, the newly set up institute carried out the first clinical trials on national servicemen when they came in for enlistment. Seri professor of ophthalmology research Saw Seang-Mei said: “Because we have had high rates of myopia for such a long time, we have a lot more experience than many other Asian countries in deciding the causes, the conditions.”
Prof Saw’s work and that of other epidemiologists led to the recognition that myopia can cause many problems as people get older, such as retinal detachment, cataract and glaucoma, said Prof Tan. The team, including Prof Tan, Associate Professor Audrey Chia, a paediatric ophthalmologist, and the late Professor Roger Beuerman, was the first to identify low-dose atropine eye drops as a viable treatment option that is both safe and effective for long-term use in children.
He added that today, low-dose Myopine eye drops developed by the SNEC are available in many countries and are undergoing final registration in countries like China.
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