Shomi Bhattacharya MD, PhD, MSc

Shomi Bhattacharya graduated in Chemistry from University of Mumbai in 1969 and then came to UK in 1970. He completed his M.Sc. in 1971 followed by Ph.D. from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1977. In 1980 he joined University of Edinburgh where in 1984 identified the first genetic locus for retinitis pigmentosa (RP). In 1986 he started his own research group and in 1987 he returned to Newcastle where he was appointed as head of Molecular Genetics in the department of Human Genetics.

In 1992 he joined the Institute of Ophthalmology in London as Sembal Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology. Shomi retired in January 2016 and is now an Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology at UCL. He is currently appointed as a Distinguished Researcher & Principal Investigator at the Andalusian Centre of Molecular Biology & Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) in Seville, Spain. He was Director of CABIMER from 2008 to 2016.