23/07/2025
Congratulations to Prof Graham E. Holder, who received the 2025 Adachi-ISCEV Award for his lifetime contributions to the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV).
Prof Holder, previously Consultant and Director of Electrophysiology at Moorfields Eye Hospital (1995–2017), has been a Hong Leong Professor at the National University of Singapore since 2017. He began his career in Clinical Neurophysiology at the Brook Hospital (1974), followed by King’s College Hospital (1995). He has over 280 peer-reviewed publications with more than 29,000 citations; over 45 book chapters, and three co-edited or co-authored books. He accepted Honorary Professorships at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in 2007 and at the Sydney University Medical School in 2013.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy for Healthcare Science, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER). He is also an Honorary Lifetime Member of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and the Asia-Pacific Ophthalmic Trauma Society.
He is a Scientific Advisory Board member for the European Ophthalmology Society, a former EVER President, and was a long-term Board member of ISCEV (Director of Education, 2001–2014). He has received Achievement Awards from the American and Asia-Pacific Academies of Ophthalmology, was named Visionary of the Quarter by the European Vision Research Gateway, and is listed in Stanford's top 2% of world scientists. He has received the Edridge Green Medal from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the Percival J. Hay Medal from the North of England Ophthalmological Society and, in 2024, the highly prestigious J. Donald Gass Medal from The Macula Society. He was also a joint recipient of an Alcon Award.
He has lectured extensively worldwide and remains a passionate teacher and researcher, striving to inform and improve patient diagnosis and management. He will present his award-winning lecture at the 63rd ISCEV Symposium in Sydney, Australia.
