Red light therapy for myopia: could it really work?

19 August 2022
Summer 2022
Myopia Retina Opinion

Professor Jez Guggenheim MCOptom, one of the UK’s leading myopia researchers, explains why recent breakthroughs could herald a new age of treatments.

For a researcher with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications – and the College’s Arthur Bennett Prize for Outstanding Research – listed on his Cardiff University webpage,  Professor Jez Guggenheim is modest about his academic successes.

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