Dr Glyn Chidlow BSc (Hons), DPhil

Senior Lecturer, Research Scientist

Dr Chidlow completed his undergraduate BSc degree at Reading University and graduated with first class Honours in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He subsequently undertook his DPhil in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at Oxford University under the supervision of Professor Neville Osborne. Dr Chidlow’s DPhil involved the first investigation of serotonin antagonist receptors in the iris and ciliary body. This research produced a number of high-ranking publications and is currently the subject of intense interest from the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr Chidlow remained in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology as a post-doctoral research scientist. He helped develop and refine the use of RT-PCR as an important tool in neuroprotection-based ophthalmic research. This technique, using whole retinae for analysis, is now employed routinely by a number of centres around the world.

He was awarded the prestigious St Cross College Knoop Junior Fellowship in 2000-2001.

Whilst in Oxford, Dr Chidlow collaborated with other European academic scientists as part of a multi-centre European grant investigating blindness, resulting in a number of first-author publications. In December 2003, he gave an oral presentation at mid-term meeting, Paris, France.

He has authored a chapter in a glaucoma-based text book, and has over 40 ophthalmic and vision science-based publications, most in the highest ranking journals in the field. He is is a reviewer for a number of journals, including The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Brain Research, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Ophthalmic Research, Experimental Eye Research,
The Journal of Neurochemistry,

Current Eye Research, Current Medical Research
He has been an invited speaker and chairman at neuroprotection-based symposia at the European Vision and Eye Research meetings and made numerous presentations at the Association for Research in Vision meetings in the USA.

Dr Chidlow is currently a senior post doctoral research scientist in the Ophthalmic Division of the Centre for Neurological Research in the Hanson Institute, Adelaide. He was recently appointed as a Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Ophthalmology at Adelaide University. He is increasingly recognized as a world-leading scientist in the field of ocular neuroprotection.