Freya Mowat

Freya is a veterinary surgeon. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 2001, before moving to the Lake District to do a 'James Herriot'-type job. She came to find ophthalmology a fascinating subject and took a specialist internship, followed by a PhD investigating hypoxia-induced retinal diseases and therapeutic strategies. Her winning image is taken from her PhD work, at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, examining the effects of hypoxia on the developing mouse retina. Since August 2009 Freya has worked at Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, doing a specialist four-year training residency in comparative ophthalmology and postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Simon Petersen-Jones. She still has an active research collaboration with James Bainbridge and Robin Ali at UCL.

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