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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Got my #FluJab today so I can help to protect my loved ones, vulnerable patients and my clinical team whilst working @moorfields.bsky.social 💪🏼💙

Photo of myself with a black top and a sticker saying I’m strong, I’m vaccinated against flu!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Congratulations to Dr Ana Catalina Rodriguez Martinez who passed her #PhD viva yesterday 🥳 Well done @anarod7.bsky.social, well deserved, you worked incredibly hard! The whole @ucleye.bsky.social lab are all so pleased for you ❤️

Image of Ana and myself in the foreground with the rest of my lab group in the background!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Today, on my way to London to host an #UsherSyndrome patient information day for 250 people living with this condition. @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfields.bsky.social A little bleary-eyed, stayed up late preparing for the day!

A photo of myself on the train looking tired!!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Welcomed the team from #SepulBio, who are sponsoring the antisense oligonucleotide #Ultevursen clinical trial for #UsherSyndrome, to @moorfields.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social for a tour of our Clinical Research Facility.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Its been an intense week! I visited #Roche headquarters in Basel, #Switzerland on Monday. What a fantastic place to work. Check out the view from their research laboratories!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Thank you to the brilliant ladies in my research lab @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social who make such a difference to vision research #WomeninScience @anarod7.bsky.social Dr Nicky Cronbach, Dr Randa Li 💙

A photo of just a few of the ladies who are making a big difference to discovery science in my research lab.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I collected my engraved #LangMedal today from the Royal Society of Medicine #SoProud #RSM

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#HappyNewYear to everyone. We’ve had some spectacular sunsets recently with the icy cold air and clear skies. Look at that orange #fiery!

Striking December sunset with a deep orange horizon and black silhouette of a bare Willow tree in the foreground.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Our @ucleye.bsky.social research lab #Christmas party! Big thank you from me to each team member. I think you’re all fabulous 🥰 Hard working and dedicated to helping patients with rare #genetic eye diseases! 🙌🏼 💙

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I attended the #WomenInVisionUK annual conference today. Empowering women to lead from the heart 💙 As one of the founders, it was so heartening to see how the organisation is thriving and growing #WomenSupportingWomen ❤️ #WomenInSTEM @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @anarod7.bsky.social

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Followed by my second engagement @ukparliament.parliament.uk this afternoon supporting the launch of the eye care pathway for children & young people with vision impairment hosted by MPs @shockatadam.bsky.social @marshadecordova.bsky.social and @guidedogsuk.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Busy day today with a visit to @ukparliament.parliament.uk to help support Judith Potts & #EsmesUmbrella lobby goverment for a dedicated diagnostic pathway for #CharlesBonnetSyndrome with fellow Trustee Helen Khan from @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Stunning firework display yesterday @leedscastle.bsky.social The theme was L❤️VE!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We have arrived at #Seirei Hamamatsu Eye Centre #Japan to deliver an educational workshop on #CharlesBonnetSyndrome #CBS with Dr Lee Jones and Dr Bethany Higgins. @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social Thank you to #EsmesUmbrella and #DaiwaFoundation for sponsoring us 🙏🏼

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The 28th @wellcometrust.bsky.social Photography Prize is showcasing its top 25 entries @crick.ac.uk. I was struck Madeleine Waller’s entry, who took photos of her mother, who lives alone in Australia. The series is entitled; I spend more than 150 hours alone each week… #Loneliness #Heartbreaking

A photo of Margaret, an elderly lady, sitting on her armchair with her eyes shut and her legs resting over one arm. She has a magazine resting on her and is holding an empty glass in one hand.

A photo of Margaret wearing a white t-shirt, looking at herself in the bathroom mirror with a black huntsman spider on her shoulder.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Thank you #CureUsher for hosting a wonderful charity ball to raise vital funds for #research and raising #awareness of #UsherSyndrome 💙

My wonderful husband, Dr John Bladen, and I standing in front of a large banner saying Cure Usher Ball 2025

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Here is my wonderful #Genetics team at Moorfields marking #JeansForGenesDay #DreamTeam looking after patients with rare genetic eye diseases and giving their very best! @anarod7.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Very proud that #Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has come top of the #NHS league tables compared to all other trusts in England 🏆 Its a wonderful place to work with great colleagues & very special patients #GeneticEyeDisease We are honoured to provide you with the best care 💙

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Thanks to Dr Manoj Parulekar and Prof Tony Moore for inviting me to speak at the Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium at St John’s College, Cambridge University. #SharingKnowledge on #Eye development with great discussions. It has been truly stimulating!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Just arrived in #Cambridge at St John’s College for the 53rd Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium focused on one of my specialties #Embryogenesis and the #Eye.

A photo of the Cloisters at St John’s College, Cambridge University

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Dr Ngozi Oluonye and I had a fantastic #WAGR weekend in Arundel hosted by the International WAGR Syndrome Association. To learn about this ultra #RareDisease, visit #GeneVision: gene.vision/knowledge-ba... W=Wilms tumour A=Aniridia G=Genitourinary abnormalities R=Range of developmental issues

A photo of Dr Oluonye and I at the WAGR weekend in the foreground, and over 30 families (100 participants) sitting on chairs in the background.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

We had our first #CRB1 patient information day yesterday @moorfields.bsky.social supported by @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social and Team CRB1. It was such a huge success, great feedback with #knowledge sharing and #networking. Thank you @anarod7.bsky.social for running the whole show 🙌🏼

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Been travelling a lot recently. Always sounds so exciting, and of-course it is but it’s also pretty tiring. There is no place like home ❤️ and I’m glad to be back for our beautiful #BritishSummer ☀️

Photo from the plane just over Surrey, Sussex and Kent showing the patchwork of fields, farms and greenery below. The Kent coast in the far distance.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It was my pleasure to speak at the #patient day for #USH2025 in Nijmegen today. I was able to share details of the multicentre international phase 2 #Ultevursen clinical trial run by #SepulBio for individuals with exon 13 mutations in the #USH2A gene.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Big up to my new PhD student Mutian Lian from @ucleye.bsky.social who presented his first poster on #UsherSyndrome at his first ever scientific conference🙌🏼! The first of many!! #USH2025 #CureUsher

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Very proud of my post doc Dr Maria Toms who presented today at #USH2025 in Nijmegen, Netherlands on our research on developing a non-viral #GeneTherapy for #USH2A. Thanks to the organisers for a stimulating meeting, and its accessibility 👏🏼 @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk

Dr Maria Toms presenting at USH2025. She is standing at a podium on the left, screens projecting her slides in the background, and a sign language interpreter live on a video screen relaying all information to Usher patients in the audience.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My team from Moorfields Eye Hospital and @ucleye.bsky.social had a great time @ukeyegeneticsgroup.bsky.social yesterday. My PhD student Dr Nicola Cronbach and post-doc Dr Sara Romero-Vasquez won the best presentation & best poster #prizes 🙌🏼 Well done ladies!!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What a stimulating annual @ukeyegeneticsgroup.bsky.social meeting. Thank you to the #Oxford #Genetics team for hosting. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves and learnt lots!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

On my way to @ukeyegeneticsgroup.bsky.social annual meeting in #Oxford this year. The agenda looks great- can’t wait to hear the talks, updates and meet new and old colleagues! #Eye #Genetics Thanks to our local organisers Prof Susie Downes and Ms Sam de Silva 👏🏼 ukegg.com/wp-content/u...

Me (Prof Mariya Moosajee, President of the UK Eye Genetics Group) on the train to Oxford- looking tired!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Fabulous discussions at the British Eye Surveillance Group #BESG Meeting in Somerset over the past couple of days. Even had a chance to cycle with close colleagues along the Strawberry Line, a disused railway line from Cheddar Valley to Yatton!

On bikes from left to right: Dr Christine Kire, myself, Dr Aeesha Malik, Dr Tasanee Braithwaite, and Prof Cathy Egan!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Beautiful bank holiday weekend, who needs to travel when you have views like this on your doorstep! Walking in #Titsey Estate ❤️

A herd of dark brown cows, possibly Red Poll, grazing on a green pasture with a forest in the background and blue skies above with floating white clouds!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Fab day @londonzoo.bsky.social for the @crick.ac.uk retreat. Great talks on discovery #science and a chance to see the animals!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Well done Dr Pippa Harding, my PhD student @ucleye.bsky.social who grew eye cups from a patient with a missense variant in the #PAX6 paired domain causing #microphthalmia & a typical #aniridia patient. SOX2 and Notch pathways were dysregulated. Disease insights: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Another contribution to understanding #CRB1. @anarod7.bsky.social reports a new genotype-phenotype correlation with the c.2506C>A p.(Pro836Thr) variant causing cystoid macular oedema & high intraocular pressure in macular dystrophy patients of African heritage. Read 👉🏼 www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Nice paper from #TeamCRB1 Dr Bethany Higgins @anarod7.bsky.social et al. @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social looking at #CRB1 patients with differing phenotypes & the challenges in finding outcome metrics for clinical trials! mdpi-res.com/d_attachment...

Eccentric fixation when microperimetry grid data is overlayed on top of en face SD-OCT.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I still prefer #zebrafish but I have to say congrats to Dr Joe Rainger and team from @roslininstitute.bsky.social for using the chick to highlight #NTN1 expression in the pioneer cells of the developing optic fissure #coloboma #gene Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Green signal at the site of the optic fissure in a chick, indicating expression of a gene called NTN1, which when mutated causes ocular coloboma and sensorineural hearing loss in patients!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is cool…my team @ucleye.bsky.social Dr Lee Jones, Dr Bethany Higgins & Kishan Devraj have designed a app called #OverSight for digital phenotyping in #Ophthalmology- to correlate passive behaviour with clinically significant changes in vision. Read more here: www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/12...

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Loved our session on “new in my practice” @rcophth.bsky.social #EyeConUK in Liverpool today. Thanks to my co-chair Prof Faruque Ghanchi from Bradford Teaching Hospital and my co-speakers Prof Susan Mollan, Prof Rohit Shetty, Mr Mahi Muqit and Mr Sanjay Mantri #Genetics 💪🏼🧬

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

What a treat hearing Prof Henry Marsh, legendary #neurosurgeon speak about the global #healthcare crisis @crick.ac.uk. Hard act to follow but hope the #clinical research fellows enjoyed my talk on using science to address patient research priorities for #genetic #eye disease!

Photo of me giving a lecture, the slide introduces #UsherSyndrome

Prof Henry Marsh describing the factors affecting healthcare.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Very proud of my PhD student @anarod7.bsky.social who presented her research on novel genotype-phenotype correlations related to #CRB1 retinopathies. Lots of interest and great discussions @arvoinfo.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Great keynote lecture by Mutale Nkonde, founder of AI for the People, @arvoinfo.bsky.social on the ethical issues we need to consider when integrating #AI into #eye health and vision #science 👏🏼

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If you get a chance, visit #Wakehurst to see this sea of geisha purple azalea flowers #Stunning #LoveSpring

A mass of shocking pink flowers from an azalea bush with a small waterfall trickling into a pond in the foreground.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Happy #Easter everyone! What a lovely time of year with the #Bluebell forests #LoveSpring

Bluebells in the foreground, green forest floor with a indigo hue on the surface from the flowers and tall forest trees in the background.

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Managed to fit in some sightseeing. The magnificient #TajMahal, one of the seven wonders of the world!

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Professor Mariya Moosajee @profmariya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I had a great trip to #Delhi attending the 40th Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Conference #APAO. Thank you to the local hosts for inviting me to speak 🙏🏼

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