Jennifer Fan Gaskin, FRANZCO

Dr. Jennifer Fan Gaskin is a clinician-scientist dedicated to preventing blindness from glaucoma. She is a principal investigator of the Ocular Fibrosis Research Unit at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (an institution ranked fourth globally in ophthalmology research), and a glaucoma specialist at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. In 2021 she was named one of Science and Technology Australia’s Superstars of STEM. Her research focuses on novel treatment strategies for fibrotic eye diseases including post-surgical fibrosis in glaucoma filtration surgery, proliferative vitreoretinopathy, and macular fibrosis in age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Fan Gaskin serves on many executive and scientific boards, including the Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society, Glaucoma Australia, and Australian Vision Research, for which she is the Secretarial Director. She is also a Glaucoma Section Editor for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.