Professor Frank Larkin

Professor Frank Larkin is Professor of Corneal Diseases, University College London and consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, where he holds three referral clinics weekly in adult and paediatric cornea and external diseases.  His research has mainly concerned corneal transplantation, ranging from experimental models to graft outcomes in patients. Since 2012 he has chaired the OTAG Audit & Clinical Research sub-group which advises NHS Blood & Transplant and has published over 30 national transplant outcome audits in international journals. He has more recently been leading early phase and randomised trials in corneal disorders and was director of the NIHR Moorfields Clinical Research Facility 2012-21. This is the world’s largest eye and vision research CRF and has supported several first-in-man studies. He has been editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Ophthalmology since 2021.