Professor John Forrester

Professor John Forrester
Professor John Forrester
Professor John Forrester

MD FRCSE FRCSG FRCOphth

Emeritus Professor

About
Email Address
j.forrester@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

Room 4.24 Institute of Medical Sciences

Foresterhill

Aberdeen

AB25 2ZD

Tel:  01224 437507

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Professor Forrester received his MD, ChB from Glasgow University, Scotland in 1970.  In 1980 he received his MD also from the University of Glasgow.  Between 1979-1984 he was Consultant Ophthalmologist/Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology at Glasgow University.  In 1984 he was appointed to his current post, Cockburn Professor of Ophthalmology University of Aberdeen/Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, NHS Grampian.

He has over the years received 16 awards and Visiting Professorships including the London Hospital Prize for Original Research in Ophthalmology in 1977, the Duke Elder Medal and the Ida Mann Medal in 1991.  He received the Spinoza Professorship in Amsterdam in 1998 and the Kimura Lectureship as Visiting Professor (UCSF) University of California, San Francisco in 2004.

His main areas of research are Diabetic Retinopathy, Angiogenesis, Endothelial Cell Function, Ocular Immunology, Uveitis, Autoimmune Disease, Imaging in Ophthalmology, Wound Healing and Corneal Transplantation and has published over 260 papers.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Physicians of Edinburgh, Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He was Chairman of the RCOphth Medical Ophthalmology Training Sub-Committee and the RCOphth Diabetic Retinopathy Guidelines Committee and a member of the MRC Advisory Board.  He was previously Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Ophthalmology 1992-2000.  He is currently an Editorial Board member of the British Journal of Ophthalmology, European Journal of Ophthalmology and Current Eye Research.

Publications

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  • Glucose-mediated regulation of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and TGF-beta receptors in human retinal endothelial cells

    Pascal, M. M., Forrester, J. V., Knott, R. M.
    Current Eye Research, vol. 19, pp. 162-170
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Macrophages and dendritic cells in IRBP-induced experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis in B10RIII mice

    Jiang, H. R., Lumsden, L., Forrester, J. V.
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 40, pp. 3177-3185
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Modelling corneal epithelial wound closure in the presence of physiological electric fields via a moving boundary formalism

    Gaffney, E. A., Maini, P. K., McCaig, C. D., Zhao, M., Forrester, J. V.
    IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine and Biology, vol. 16, pp. 369-393
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The preprocessing of retinal images for the detection of fluorescein leakage

    Cree, M. J., Olson, J. A., McHardy, K. C., Sharp, P. F., Forrester, J. V.
    Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 44, pp. 293-308
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Tomographic reconstruction of the retina using a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope

    Vieira, P., Manivannan, A., Lim, C. S., Sharp, P., Forrester, J. V.
    Physiological Measurement, vol. 20, pp. 119
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Cytokine regulation of RANTES production by human retinal pigment epithelial cells

    Crane, I. J., Kuppner, M. C., McKillop-Smith, S., Knott, R. M., Forrester, J. V.
    Cellular Immunology, vol. 184, no. 1, pp. 37-44
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Lay perspectives: Advantages for health research

    Entwistle, V. A., Renfrew, M. J., Yearley, S., Forrester, J., Lamont, T.
    British Medical Journal, vol. 316, no. 7129, pp. 463-466
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Choroidal dendritic cell function is regulated by the retinal pigment epithelium

    Forrester, J. V., Crane, I., Liversidge, J., Lumsden, L., Mekillop-Snmhr, S.
    Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol. 38, no. 4
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Nitric oxide accelerates the onset and increases the severity of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis through an IFN-gamma-dependent mechanism

    Hoey, S. A., Grabowski, P. S., Ralston, S. H., Forrester, J. V., Liversidge, J.
    The Journal of Immunology, vol. 159, no. 10, pp. 5132-5142
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A fully automated comparative microaneurysm digital detection system

    Cree, M. J., Olson, J. A., McHardy, K. C., Sharp, P. F., Forrester, J. V.
    Eye, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 622-628
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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