Assoc. Prof. Fred Chen
MBBS (Hons), PhD (London), FRANZCO
Inherited retinal diseases
Biography
Associate Professor Fred Chen is a specialist in inherited retinal diseases and other systemic genetic conditions that affects the eye.
He was trained in medical and surgical retina at Moorfields Eye Hospital and completed a PhD in retinal cell transplantation at the University College of London. He has a special interest in clinical trials, gene therapy and genotype-phenotype correlations in a range of genetic diseases including, but not limited to, Stargardt disease, retinitis pigmentosa, choroideremia, macular dystrophy, pattern dystrophy, cone dystrophy, cone-rod dystrophy, achromatopsia, familial exudative vitreoretinopathy, Usher syndrome, Bardet Biedl syndrome and Sticklers syndrome. His research group has worked on describing clinical features and developing treatment and diseased cellular models for RP1, PRPF31, CRB1, RCBTB1, PRPH2, ABCA4, USH2A, MYO7A, OTX2, RPE65, CLN3 and SNRNP200.
He is a clinical associate professor at the University of Melbourne and a principal research fellow at the University of Western Australia. He consults at Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
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